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Journal of African Cinemas 11.3 is out now
Monday, March 16, 2020

Journal of African Cinemas 11.3 is out now

Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of African Cinemas 11.3 is out now! 

 

Special Issue: ‘The Cinematic City: Desire, Form and the African Urban’ guest edited by Danai S. Mupotsa, Polo B. Moji and Natasha Himmelman

 

For more information about the journal and special issue, click here >> https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-african-cinemas

 

Aims & Scope

 

The Journal of African Cinemas is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal that explores the interactions of visual and verbal narratives in African film. It recognizes the shifting paradigms that have defined and continue to define African cinemas. Identity and perception are interrogated in relation to their positions within diverse African film languages.

 

Issue 11.3

 

Editorial

 

The cinematic city: Desire, form and the African urban

Danai S. Mupotsa, Polo B. Moji and Natasha Himmelman 

 

Articles

 

Hyenas/hustlers: An Afrosur/realist reading of Touki Bouki (1973) 

Polo B. Moji

 

Melancholy freedom: Movement and stasis in Sibs Shongwe-La Mer’s Necktie Youth (2015)

Timothy Wright

 

‘Maisha yetu ya kila siku kama vile movie’: Fantasy, desire and urban space in Tanzanian music videos 

David Kerr

 

Listening and hearing Carmen: Sonic cartographies of struggle in U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005)

Natasha Himmelman

 

Filming the invisible: Rubrics of ordinary life in Stories of Our Lives (2014) 

Eddie Ombagi

 

The casebre on the sand: Reflections on Luanda’s excepted citizenship through the cinematography of Maria João Ganga’s Na Cidade Vazia (2004) 

Addamms Mututa

 

Dark and gritty/slick and glossy: Genre, Nollywood and Lagos 

Connor Ryan

 

Fragile feeling

Danai S Mupot