Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes

This book is the first of its kind to bring basic notions of contemporary physics to bear on African cine-scapes.

In this book, renowned African cinema scholar Kenneth W. Harrow presents unique new ways to think about space and time in film, with a specific focus on African and African diasporic cinema. Through a series of case studies, he explores how cinema creates and represents time and space and, more specifically, how a cinema centered in African landscapes and figures accomplishes thi...