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Informationen zum Autor By Olivier-Jean Tchouaffe Klappentext This book explores Sissako's original cinematic vision, which tackles complex in-depth African realities with the power of imaginative excellence. Sissako's work defies existing normative global geopolitics and conditions of knowledge and aesthetic production in Africa through radical hope and creative adaptation. Zusammenfassung This book explores Sissako’s original cinematic vision, which tackles complex in-depth African realities with the power of imaginative excellence. Sissako’s work defies existing normative global geopolitics and conditions of knowledge and aesthetic production in Africa through radical hope and creative adaptation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: On the Genealogy of the Camera-Eye and Sissako's Poetic PossibilitiesChapter 1: Mapping the Theoretical Terrain: Cinema, Sensor-Ship, and the Search for Authenticity in the Age of Neoliberal Rationalities and Islamic TerrorChapter 2: The Camera-Eye, The Arte wave and Afro-FuturismPart II: Aesthetic and Film AnalysisChapter 3: Sissako's Cinema: Communal Life as an Aesthetic PracticeChapter 4: Life on Earth (1998): Meditation on Belonging in a Globalized WorldChapter 5: Heremakono (2002): On African Imaginative Landscapes, Frontiers, and JourneysChapter 6: Bamako (2007): Africa, Cowboys, and Postcolonial Economic Blues.Chapter 7: Timbuktu (2015): Notes on Art, Terror, and Cosmopolitan PoliticsChapter 8: Conclusion: Marginal Subjectivities and Globalization: The Subaltern SpeakingAbout the Author
