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873144Meaninglessnesshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/meaninglessness/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/648479/67ca045d-6422-4a32-b831-5c0f08eb33f2.jpg?v=638335646011470000696967MXNMichigan State University PressInStock/Ebooks/<p>For too long, the approach to seemingly universal experiences like love, death, and even time in film has been dominated by the Global North. But what if such explorations developed horizontally instead? Drawing from both European and African cultural theorists, including Gilles Deleuze and Wole Soyinka, Vlad Dima invites us to consider what happens to postcolonial African film if we no longer privilege the idea of time. How else might we understand the cinematic image, and how would its meanings change? <em>Meaninglessness: Time, Rhythm, and the Undead in Postcolonial Cinema</em> is a study of meaning and meaninglessness through the figure of the undead, beginning with francophone Africa and extending to postcolonial France. Through the analysis of films like Mati Diops <em>Atlantics</em> and Jean-Pierre Bekolos <em>Miraculous Weapons</em>, Dima shows how the African cinematic image may produce meaning without any attachment to European time, and how that meaning is connected instead to the philosophy of negritude and to the notion of rhythm. <em>Meaninglessness</em> introduces the concept of the rhythm-sequence as a new way to understand the African moving image.</p>...868412Meaninglessness696967https://www.gandhi.com.mx/meaninglessness/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/648479/67ca045d-6422-4a32-b831-5c0f08eb33f2.jpg?v=638335646011470000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20229781628954760_W3siaWQiOiI1N2ZhOTZiMi03MzI3LTRiM2MtYTBkNC1lZTM1NGM5ZDQxYmQiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjk2NywiZGlzY291bnQiOjI3MSwic2VsbGluZ1ByaWNlIjo2OTYsImluY2x1ZGVzVGF4Ijp0cnVlLCJwcmljZVR5cGUiOiJXaG9sZXNhbGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6Ik1YTiIsImZyb20iOiIyMDI1LTA3LTAxVDAwOjAwOjAwWiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6ZmFsc2V9XQ==9781628954760_<p>For too long, the approach to seemingly universal experiences like love, death, and even time in film has been dominated by the Global North. But what if such explorations developed horizontally instead? Drawing from both European and African cultural theorists, including Gilles Deleuze and Wole Soyinka, Vlad Dima invites us to consider what happens to postcolonial African film if we no longer privilege the idea of time. How else might we understand the cinematic image, and how would its meanings change? <em>Meaninglessness: Time, Rhythm, and the Undead in Postcolonial Cinema</em> is a study of meaning and meaninglessness through the figure of the undead, beginning with francophone Africa and extending to postcolonial France. Through the analysis of films like Mati Diops <em>Atlantics</em> and Jean-Pierre Bekolos <em>Miraculous Weapons</em>, Dima shows how the African cinematic image may produce meaning without any attachment to European time, and how that meaning is connected instead to the philosophy of negritude and to the notion of rhythm. <em>Meaninglessness</em> introduces the concept of the rhythm-sequence as a new way to understand the African moving image.</p>...9781628954760_Michigan State University Presslibro_electonico_324bb0d5-58eb-3b72-a9a4-e81633bbe2df_9781628954760;9781628954760_9781628954760Vlad DimaInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/uofchicagopress-epub-32d76068-c5a3-454f-98af-082d7cc0d65d.epub2022-09-01T00:00:00+00:00Michigan State University Press