Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics
	Cinematic Aesthetics in General
	Thinking Visual Aesthetics from Egypt
	An Indian Aesthetics of Cinema?
	An Aesthetics from the Global South?
	Note
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: Southern Aesthetics: The Egyptian Way: Shady Abdelsalam’s The Day of Counting the Years (1969)
	Shady Abdelsalam: An Unfinished Greatness
	Reading of Southern Aesthetics
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3: Constellations of Time: Towards a Cartography of Plundered Memories
	Introduction
	A Constellation of Memories
	Rona Sela – Undoing the Colonial Archives
	Khadijeh – Scent of Revolution
	Killing in the Name: The Anonymous Soldier
	The Uprooting: Sabri Jiryis
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4: Singing in Saffron Times: Documentary Film and Resistance to Majoritarian Politics in India
	Documentary and the Politics of Hate
	The Invisible Games of Hate: The Boy in the Branch
	The Micropolitics of Emerging Public Spheres: Chai Darbari
	Singing in Difficult Times
	Singing in the Times of WhatsApp
	Towards the Multiplicity of Southern Aesthetics?
	Notes
	References
		Filmography
Chapter 5: Local Realism: Indian Independent Film as a Socio-political Medium
	Conceptual Framework: Local Realism and a Secular Gaze as New Indian Indie Aesthetics
	Patriarchy and Politics of The Great Indian Kitchen
	Local Aesthetics of Caste in Life of an Outcast
	Kashmir Question: Local and Secular Aesthetics in Hamid
	LGBTQ Identity, Local Realism and National Discourse: Coming Out of Evening Shadows
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: Indian Gangsters, American Noir and Africa’s Drum Magazine: The Making of a South African Gangster Fliek during Early Apartheid
	Indian Cinemas as Sites of Violence
	The Gangster as ‘Rebel’ – the resistance argument
	The Hollywood Gangster Film
		Protagonist and Character Arc
		Society in Focus
		Balancing Individual and Social Interests
	The Street with No Name (1948)
	The Construction of the Gangster in Drum Magazine
	Thematisation of ‘Gangsterism’ as a Marketing Strategy in Drum
	Different Modalities of Representing the Gangster in Drum
	Drum’s ‘Gangster’ Tropes
	Gangster Media Strategies – the Management of Reputation
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 7: Contagious Aesthetics: Bios, Politics and Cinema in Contemporary Kerala
	The Virus – Metaphoric, Epidemic, Technological
	New Generation Malayalam Cinema (newgen)
	The Digital Turn – Network Narrative, Aesthetic and Practice
		Network Narrative
		Network Aesthetic
	A Local Adaptation and a Hollywood “Film”– Virus and Contagion
		Aesthetics – Sound, Space and Scale
		Realism and Representation
		Frail Masculinities and Flawed Femininities
		Patient Zero (See Figures 7.4, 7.5)
		Technophilia
		Non-human Networks
		Disease and Global Capitalism
		The Biopolitical State
		Narratives of Containment
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
Chapter 8: Dealing with The Precarious City: Violence, Memory and Rhythms of Endurance in La sombra del caminante (Ciro Guerra 2005) & La sociedad del semáforo (Ruben Mendoza, 2010)
	Colombian Armed Conflict, Urban Violence(s) and Their Representations in Contemporary Urban Cinema
		The Discourse of Violence in Colombian Cinema
	Conflict, Violence and Memory in Colombia’s Contemporary Urban Cinema
	The Urban Screen as a Place of Temporal Fluctuations: Violence, The Work of Memory and the Rhythms of Precariousness
	The Wanderer’s Shadow (Ciro Guerra, 2004): Bodies of Memory and Precariousness: The Figures of Coloniality and the Temporal Dynamics of Uncertainty
		Precarious Urban Subjectivity: Inertias and Rhythms of Emergency
		Embodying the Long Durée of Coloniality
		Crafting Film Genres for An Aesthetic of Precariousness: Experimental Alignments
		Affective Embodiment of Trauma and the Healing
	The Stoplight Society (Rubén Mendoza, 2010): Objects, Social Ensembles and Endurance
		The Grotesque Experience of the City
		Engineering New Object Connections
		Social Ensembles That Short-Circuit the Rhythm of the City
	Conclusion: A Film Aesthetic of/from the Global South
	Notes
	Bibliography
		Filmography
Chapter 9: Cinematics of Southern Environmentalism
	Cinema and the Global South
	Cinematic (De)territorialization of the Global South
	The Indo-Nigerian Landscape: Affinities of Resistance and Resilience
		Black November: The Environmental Turn
	Resistance as a Trope of Southern-ness
	A Resilient South: Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain
	Bibliography
Index