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The wo/man in the mirror 镜子里的女人
IF 0.1 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jac_00027_1
L. Wagner
This article focuses primarily on mirror scenes in Lionel Rogosin’s ground-breaking African film Come Back, Africa (1959). To examine how specular reflections may be influenced by a director’s identity, Rogosin’s film is compared to another African classic, Ousmane Sembène’s Black Girl (La Noire de…) (1966). Despite surprising intertextual similarities, their specular reflections signify two very different filmic gazes. Both films are structured as fictional narratives that exhibit a documentary/fictional synthesis and set in inhospitable racist societies. By exploring how these scenes inform the narrative and identities of the characters, these specular encounters add a layer of meaning to films already firmly established in African cinema history.
本文主要关注莱昂内尔·罗戈辛开创性的非洲电影《回来吧,非洲》(1959)中的镜像场景。为了研究镜面反射是如何受到导演身份的影响的,罗戈辛的电影被比作另一部非洲经典电影,奥斯曼·塞姆贝的《黑女孩》(1966年)。尽管互文之间有着惊人的相似之处,但它们的镜面反射意味着两种截然不同的电影凝视。这两部电影都是虚构的叙事,展现了纪录片/虚构的综合,背景都是不友善的种族主义社会。通过探索这些场景如何影响人物的叙事和身份,这些镜面般的相遇为非洲电影史上已经牢固确立的电影增添了一层意义。
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Much Loved transgressions: Morocco’s reflection in the mirror of its young prostitutes 多爱的罪过:摩洛哥在年轻妓女的镜子中的反映
IF 0.1 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jac_00024_1
Samia Charkioui
Much Loved, a Moroccan movie by director Nabil Ayouch released in French cinemas in 2015 and selected at La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes the same year, represents a major turning point in the history of national cinema. Officially banned from screens by the Moroccan Ministry of Communications one week after its premiere in Cannes, it unleashed an emotional storm and an unprecedented debate in the Moroccan society without ever having been seen by the public and only on the basis of some extracts leaked on the internet. The movie relates the lives of four young women living on prostitution in the touristic city of Marrakesh. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the factors of transgression carried by the movie and how they enable a better understanding of its violent mirroring impact on the Moroccan society.
摩洛哥导演纳比勒·阿尤尤的电影《深爱》于2015年在法国上映,同年在戛纳电影节上入围,是法国电影史上的一个重大转折点。在戛纳首映一周后,摩洛哥通讯部正式禁止该片在银幕上上映,该片在摩洛哥社会引发了一场情感风暴和前所未有的辩论,而公众从未看到过,只是基于互联网上泄露的一些摘录。这部电影讲述了旅游城市马拉喀什四个靠卖淫为生的年轻女性的生活。本文将深入分析影片所承载的违法因素,以及这些因素如何让我们更了解影片对摩洛哥社会的暴力镜像影响。
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In memory of Frank Ukadike 为了纪念弗兰克·乌卡迪克
IF 0.1 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jac_00030_7
K. Harrow, Babatunde O. Onikoyi, K. Tomaselli, S. Petty, Vaughn Borden
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The persistent instructor: 45 years of Kofi the Good Farmer in Ghana 坚持不懈的导师:加纳45年的好农民科菲
IF 0.1 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jac_00028_1
J. Blaylock
In 1950, the Gold Coast colonial government published the 52-page pamphlet titled Kofi the Good Farmer. In 1953, it was adapted into a thirteen-minute instructional film of the same name. The film, like the booklet, follows a farmer named Kofi as he demonstrates proper cocoa-farming methods. Depicted as a remote, rural farmer who becomes successful because of his implementation of foreign farming techniques and his acceptance of the colonial government’s authority to determine and control the cocoa grading scale, Kofi provides evidence of paternalism and racialist colonial rhetoric in British colonial filmmaking. However, 34 years after the making of Kofi, it was re-shown to rural audiences. Why was a dutiful colonial subject like Kofi instructing cocoa farmers over 30 years after Ghana’s independence? And what can his use by the postcolonial state tell us about national governance? This article argues that the persistent use of Kofi by Ghana reveals the entangled relationship between colonialism and nationalism in postcolonial governance. Following the subtle changes that Kofi has undergone in his 45 years of government service, I highlight how government-sponsored films construct their audiences as remote in order to reinforce the power of the state in moments of political uncertainty.
1950年,黄金海岸殖民政府出版了一本52页的小册子,名为《好农民科菲》。1953年,它被改编成一部13分钟的同名教学电影。这部电影和这本小册子一样,讲述了一位名叫科菲的农民如何示范正确的可可种植方法。科菲被描绘成一个偏远的农村农民,因为他采用了外国农业技术,并接受了殖民政府决定和控制可可分级标准的权威,他成为了成功的人。科菲提供了英国殖民电影中家长式作风和种族主义殖民言论的证据。然而,在《科菲》拍摄34年后,它被重新放映给农村观众。为什么像科菲这样一个尽职尽责的殖民地臣民在加纳独立30多年后还在指导可可种植者?他在后殖民国家的运用能告诉我们什么关于国家治理的知识?本文认为,加纳对科菲的持续使用揭示了后殖民统治中殖民主义与民族主义之间的纠缠关系。随着科菲在他45年的政府服务中所经历的微妙变化,我强调了政府资助的电影如何将他们的观众塑造成遥远的,以便在政治不确定的时刻加强国家的权力。
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A Companion to African Cinema, Kenneth Harrow and Carmela Garritano (eds) (2019) 《非洲电影伴侣》,肯尼斯·哈罗和卡梅拉·加里塔诺(编)(2019)
IF 0.1 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jac_00029_5
A. Mututa
Review of: A Companion to African Cinema, Kenneth Harrow and Carmela Garritano (eds) (2019)Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 515 pp.,ISBN 978-1-11910-005-8, ePDF $172.99,ISBN: 978-1-119-10031-7, h/bk $215
评论:非洲电影的伴侣,肯尼斯·哈罗和卡梅拉·加里塔诺(编辑)(2019)霍博肯,新泽西州:约翰·威利和儿子,515页,ISBN 978-1-11910-005-8, ePDF $172.99,ISBN: 978-1-119-10031-7, h/bk $215
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Hyenas/hustlers: An Afrosur/realist reading of Touki Bouki (1973) 鬣狗/骗子:对Touki Bouki(1973)的非洲主义/现实主义解读
IF 0.1 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/jac_00016_1
Polo B. Moji
Abstract Using Amir Baraka's conception of Afrosurrealism as a black aesthetic form that is imbricated with 'lived life', this article proposes an Afrosur/realist reading of Djibril Diop Mambéty's Touki Bouki ('The hyena's journey') (1973). I explore the trajectory of the iconic lovers Anta and Mory and their recourse to petty criminality as a means of escaping to Paris. I first consider how petty criminality or 'hustling' can be read in relation to Abdoumaliq Simone's notion of 'people as infrastructure' or a realistic reproduction of the African urban. I then turn my attention to Membéty's surrealist portrayal of Anta and Mory as 'hyenas' ‐ or the archetypal figure of the stranger who poses a threat to the city's social order. Central to my analysis of the surreal as an expression of desire is the filmic reproduction of post-independence Dakar on-screen. I pay attention to place-identity, and the filmic depiction of nodes and modes of mobility as sites of potential disruption to the city as a form of social order. The article thus subverts and complicates the dichotomy between the real and the surreal as cinematic forms that reproduce the postcolonial African urban as both lived and imagined.
本文采用Amir Baraka的非洲超现实主义概念,将其作为一种由“活生生的生活”组成的黑色美学形式,对Djibril Diop mamb阿迪的作品Touki Bouki(鬣狗的旅程)(1973)进行非洲超现实主义/现实主义解读。我探索了标志性恋人安踏和莫瑞的轨迹,以及他们以轻微犯罪作为逃到巴黎的手段。我首先考虑如何将轻微犯罪或“诈骗”与Abdoumaliq Simone的“人即基础设施”概念或非洲城市的现实再现联系起来。然后,我把注意力转向了membsamuty对安塔和莫瑞的超现实主义描绘,把他们描绘成“鬣狗”——或者是对城市社会秩序构成威胁的陌生人的原型。我对作为欲望表达的超现实主义的分析的核心是电影对独立后达喀尔在银幕上的再现。我关注的是地方身份,以及电影对节点和流动模式的描述,这些节点和模式是对城市作为一种社会秩序形式的潜在破坏。因此,这篇文章颠覆并复杂化了现实与超现实之间的二分法,以电影的形式再现了生活和想象中的后殖民非洲城市。
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The cinematic city: Desire, form and the African urban 电影城市:欲望、形式与非洲城市
IF 0.1 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/jac_00015_2
Danai S. Mupotsa, Polo B. Moji, Natasha Himmelman
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'Maisha yetu ya kila siku kama vile movie': Fantasy, desire and urban space in Tanzanian music videos “Maisha yetu ya kila siku kama vile movie”:坦桑尼亚音乐录影带中的幻想、欲望和城市空间
IF 0.1 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/jac_00018_1
D. Kerr
Abstract An explosion of creative practices in music, film and video production followed the liberalization of the Tanzanian media in the early 1990s. Concerned about cultural imperialism, Tanzania's first president Julius Nyerere had resisted allowing television in mainland Tanzania and consequently the first licence was only granted in 1994. Following the establishment of the first TV station there has been a proliferation of TV station and online platforms circulating the new genre of popular music videos. During the last decade, new media spaces, including continent-wide TV channels such as Channel O and MTV Africa (both based in South Africa), have created new circuits for the circulation of Tanzanian music videos. New media spaces enabled by liberalization have become sites for negotiating gendered, moral and sociopolitical value. They also serve as imaginative sites of desire and fantasy. Music videos set in the cinematic space of Dar es Salaam's new high-rise buildings and 'exclusive' clubs have become something of a trope in Tanzania. These videos display fantasies of enjoyment and consumption. In so doing, they reflect neo-liberal and individual modes of wealth accumulation which challenge accepted social norms about consumption and wealth. Examining these new contemporary cinematic representations of the city as spaces of fantasy and desire, this article will explore the modes of spectatorship audiences bring to these videos. It will examine how audiences, largely excluded from these exclusive city spaces of consumption and excess, read cityscapes in music videos. This article ultimately sets out the multiplicity, ambiguity and indeterminacy of the desires (both creative and destructive) evoked in audiences by contemporary music video.
20世纪90年代初,随着坦桑尼亚媒体的自由化,音乐、电影和视频制作领域的创造性实践出现了爆炸式增长。由于担心文化帝国主义,坦桑尼亚首任总统朱利叶斯•尼雷尔(Julius Nyerere)拒绝在坦桑尼亚大陆开设电视,因此直到1994年才颁发了第一张牌照。随着第一家电视台的成立,传播流行音乐视频这种新类型的电视台和网络平台激增。在过去十年中,新的媒体空间,包括遍及整个大陆的电视频道,如O频道和MTV非洲(均设在南非),为坦桑尼亚音乐录影带的传播创造了新的途径。自由主义催生的新媒体空间已经成为讨论性别、道德和社会政治价值的场所。它们也是欲望和幻想的想象场所。在达累斯萨拉姆(Dar es Salaam)新建的高层建筑和“专属”俱乐部的电影空间中拍摄的音乐视频已经成为坦桑尼亚的一种比喻。这些视频展示了享受和消费的幻想。在这样做的过程中,它们反映了新自由主义和个人财富积累模式,挑战了关于消费和财富的公认社会规范。通过审视这些将城市作为幻想和欲望空间的新当代电影表现形式,本文将探索观众带给这些视频的观看模式。它将研究那些基本上被排除在这些消费和过度的专属城市空间之外的观众如何在音乐视频中阅读城市景观。本文最终阐述了当代音乐录像在观众心中唤起的欲望(既有创造性的,也有破坏性的)的多样性、模糊性和不确定性。
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Dark and gritty/slick and glossy: Genre, Nollywood and Lagos 深色粗糙/光滑有光泽:流派、诺莱坞和拉各斯
IF 0.1 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/jac_00022_1
Connor Ryan
Abstract In this article, I am concerned principally with Taxi Driver (Oriahi, 2015), Gbomo Gbomo Express (Taylaur, 2015), Just Not Married (Patrick, 2016), Ojukokoro (Greed) (Olaitan, 2016) as well as Catch.er (Taylaur, 2017). These films are characterized as much by the depiction of clever criminals as the cultivation of a cynical disposition from which transgressions of this sort appear stylish and violence is rendered 'cool'. Almost all of them turn on a scheme to dupe others of a large sum of money, and are punctuated by backstabbing partners in crime, tables turning by chance, edgy armed standoffs and a surprising number of bodies in car trunks. Given the dark portrait of Lagos these films present, one might be inclined to read the genre cycle as a reiteration of the role Lagos has historically played as embodiment of popular anxieties concerning insecurity, material inequality and social breakdown. And yet, in recent years, conditions within the city have markedly improved over those of the deepest point of urban crisis in the 1990s when Lagos was, indeed, paralysed by a generalized condition of insecurity and dysfunction. New Nollywood's repertoire of film styles has expanded to include international film cycles and genres such as romantic comedies, psychological thrillers, police procedurals, among others. This raises important questions about the nature of correspondences between cinema and the city, such as whether New Nollywood genre films tell us anything about social, cultural or historical circumstances in Lagos, or the place the city occupies in the popular imagination, for instance. Recent upmarket film noirs speak, instead, to the evolution of Lagos as a media capital. I examine the different kinds of work genre performs in New and Old Nollywood films and propose a number of ways to critically interpret genre's various registers.
在这篇文章中,我主要关注的是出租车司机(Oriahi, 2015), Gbomo Gbomo Express (Taylaur, 2015), Just Not Married (Patrick, 2016), Ojukokoro (Greed) (Olaitan, 2016)以及Catch。er (taylor, 2017)。这些电影的特点是对聪明的罪犯的描绘,以及对愤世嫉俗性格的培养,这类违法行为显得很时髦,暴力被渲染得很“酷”。几乎所有的故事都是为了骗走别人一大笔钱而策划的,而且还不时出现同伙背后捅刀子、偶然的局势逆转、激烈的武装对峙以及汽车后备箱里惊人数量的尸体。考虑到这些电影所呈现的拉各斯的黑暗形象,人们可能倾向于将这种类型循环解读为拉各斯在历史上所扮演的角色的重申,它是对不安全感、物质不平等和社会崩溃的普遍焦虑的体现。然而,近年来,与上世纪90年代城市危机最严重的时候相比,拉各斯市内的状况有了明显改善,当时拉各斯确实因普遍的不安全和功能失调状况而陷入瘫痪。新瑙莱坞的电影风格已经扩展到包括国际电影周期和类型,如浪漫喜剧、心理惊悚片、警察程序片等。这就提出了关于电影和城市之间对应关系本质的重要问题,例如,新瑙莱坞类型电影是否告诉我们拉各斯的社会、文化或历史环境,或者这个城市在大众想象中的位置。相反,最近的高档黑色电影反映了拉各斯作为媒体之都的演变。我研究了新旧诺莱坞电影中不同类型的工作类型,并提出了一些方法来批判性地解释类型的各种注册。
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Filming the invisible: Rubrics of ordinary life in Stories of Our Lives (2014) 拍摄隐形人:《我们的生活故事》中的普通生活准则(2014)
IF 0.1 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/jac_00020_1
Eddie Ombagi
Abstract In this article, I offer a reading of Stories of Our Lives (2014), a documentary about the experiences of queer people who live in the city of Nairobi. I am interested in how through the use of the documentary film, the director of the film and the queer people whose lives are represented, articulate new forms of inhabiting and being in the city. This is despite the legal and political hurdles that govern queer liveability in Kenya. I argue that when queer individuals inhabit, move through, move in, occupy or transit through city spaces in their daily habits, practices, rituals and performances, a rubric is generated. As a form, this rubric of ordinary also works both in, and outside of the convention of the documentary film. This rubric not only destabilizes the circulating discourses about queer sexuality, it also crafts a unique queer subjectivity that transcends the physical limitations of the city that enliven forms of queer world making
摘要在这篇文章中,我阅读了《我们的生活故事》(2014),这是一部关于内罗毕市酷儿经历的纪录片。我感兴趣的是,通过纪录片的使用,电影的导演和他们的生活所代表的酷儿们如何表达出在城市中居住和生活的新形式。尽管肯尼亚的酷儿生活能力存在法律和政治障碍,但情况依然如此。我认为,当酷儿在日常习惯、实践、仪式和表演中居住、穿过、迁入、占据或穿越城市空间时,就会产生一个准则。作为一种形式,这种普通的准则也适用于纪录片的惯例内外。这一准则不仅破坏了关于酷儿性行为的流行话语,还创造了一种独特的酷儿主体性,超越了城市的物理限制,活跃了酷儿世界的形成形式
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