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Queer Bodies in African Films

Ncube, Gibson. 2022. Queer Bodies in African Films. NISC Press/African Humanities Association. https://www.nisc.co.za/products/111/books/que...

Gibson Ncube Gibson Ncube

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African Cinemas: Spaces, Technologies, Audiences and Genres

This research project presents an ethnography and political economy of different spaces – cinemas, film festivals, websites, and other public spaces – where African films are screened, as well as an analysis of contemporary African films and of the genres and trends they represent.

Pier Paolo Frassinelli Pier Paolo Frassinelli

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Bodies and/as Texts: Representing queer on screen in contemporary Africa

The body is an assemblage of not only the physical and the material.

Gibson Ncube Gibson Ncube

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Texts/Forms and Transformations: A Poetics of the African Imagination

African narratives in both their traditional and contemporary phases apparently extend or re-stage tendencies previously encoded in folklore.

Maik Nwosu Maik Nwosu
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