Sonic Space in Djibril Diop Mambety's Films
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This volume is an important study of orality and narrative in Senegalese cinema, and it has a voice that is certain to emanate beyond its covers.
» Ian Gerg, Notes
The art of Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety's cinema lies in the tension created between the visual narrative and the aural narrative. His work has been considered hugely influential, and his films bridge Western practices of filmmaking and oral traditions from West Africa. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Indiana University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 244
- ISBN
- 9780253024213
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«
This volume is an important study of orality and narrative in Senegalese cinema, and it has a voice that is certain to emanate beyond its covers.
» Ian Gerg, Notes
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[A]s the first monograph to focus on listening to a body of cinematic work from the African continent, Dima's book makes an undeniably welcome contribution, adding useful new critical concepts. African cinema has on the whole received short shrift from screen sound and music studies, a state of affairs the book clearly demonstrates is unjust. By focusing on Mambety's often radical use of sound, Dima argues forcefully that this rich and innovative body of work needs to play a far more central role in our understanding of the ways in which sound and image operate.
» Music, Sound, and the Moving Image