TY  - BOOK
AU  - Green-Simms,Lindsey B.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Queer African Cinemas / 
T2  - a Camera Obscura book
SN  - 9781478022633
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - fast
KW  - Homosexuality in motion pictures
KW  - Homosexuality and motion pictures
KW  - Gays in motion pictures
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ Studies / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism
KW  - Africa
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Registering Resistance: The Pluralities and Possibilities of Queer African Cinemas -- Making Waves: Queer Eccentricity and West African Wayward Women -- Touching Nollywood: From Negation to Negotiation in Queer Nigerian Cinema -- Cutting Masculinities: Post-Apartheid South African Cinema -- Holding Space, Saving Joy: Queer Love and Critical Resilience in East Africa -- Coda: Queer Cinema's Destiny (a view from 2020); Open Access
N2  - "In Queer African Cinemas, Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the twenty-first century in an environment of increasing anti-queer violence, efforts to criminalize homosexuality, and other state-sanctioned homophobia. Green-Simms argues that these films not only record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability many queer Africans experience; they highlight how queer African cinematic practices contribute to imagining new hopes and possibilities. Examining globally circulating international art films as well as popular melodramas made for local audiences, Green-Simms emphasizes that in these films queer resistance-contrary to traditional narratives about resistance that center overt and heroic struggle-is often practiced from a position of vulnerability. By reading queer films alongside discussions about censorship and audiences, Green-Simms renders queer African cinema as a rich visual archive that documents the difficulty of queer existence as well as the potentials for queer life-building and survival"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/99874/
ER  -