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- ISBN 9781032159164
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Mar 2024
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of virtuality, creativity and change. It opens up a dialogue amongst scholars and filmmakers from the Global South: India, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, South Africa, and Egypt.
The essays in the volume approach cinema as an intertwined process of both production and perception not divorced from the economic, social, political and cultural. They emphasise film as a visual medium where form, structure and content are not separable. Through a wide array of film-readings, the authors explore the concept of a southern cinematic esthetics, in particular, and the concept of the Global South in general.
The volume will be of interest to scholars, students and researchers of film and media studies, critical theory, cultural studies and Global South studies.
Dilip M Menon is Professor of History and International Relations at the University of Witwatersrand, and Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa. His interests are in knowledge from the Global South, South Asian cultural and intellectual history and oceanic histories. He has edited Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South (2022) and Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought (2023).
Amir Taha gained his PhD in English Literature and Cultures from the University of Tübingen in 2017. He is an Associate Researcher at Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA), University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Taha taught Film Studies, Cultural Studies and Global South Studies at the University of Tübingen and at Wits University. He is the author of Film and Counterculture in the 2011 Egyptian Uprising (2021) and is the co-editor of the upcoming Cinemas from the Global South. Towards Southern Aesthetics (Routledge).
