FILM 279 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Wanuri Kahiu, Afrofuturism, Pumzi
30 Oct 2018
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Global wave african cinema: district 9 in the center of district 9, you have a cast of black african actors, and you get an interaction between nollywood with the global wave, pumzi (wanuri kahiu) Powerful movement towards media archaeology and away from film history. Anne friedberg (270 - 278): as of the year 2000, film scholars started to realise, that film history as an isolated medium, was impossible due to the influences of multimedia. It does(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:373)ake se(cid:374)se to isolate fil(cid:373), i(cid:374)stead (cid:374)eeds to (cid:271)e looked at (cid:449)ith its i(cid:374)fluences by multimedia. The kinds of classic film history that assumed a certain type of film audience, the spectator has changed. Elsaesser: a flip of film history instead of looking at film history starting in the 1900s, looking at it from the present to the past. Making it an archeological mission to look at the connections and linkages between the position of cinema and its relation of media between different forms.
