Project description
Bringing marginalised African cinema into the spotlight
After more than half a century since its establishment, film and screen studies remains a colonised field, mostly Eurocentric in its historical, theoretical, and critical frameworks. Films and scholarship by Africans, in particular, and by people of colour, in general, are frequently marginalised, if not completely excluded. The EU-funded AFRISCREENWORLDS project aims to bring into the spotlight the most marginalised regional cinema through the study of 'screen worlds', with a focus on Africa. Drawing on diverse global contexts, the project explores the complexities of audiovisual narratives and their production and circulation in our contemporary moment, embracing scholarly as well as creative and activist methods.
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Funding Scheme
ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantHost institution
WC1H OXG London
United Kingdom
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Beneficiaries (2)
WC1H OXG London
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S10 2TN Sheffield
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