Descripción del proyecto
El marginado cine africano puesto bajo el foco
Tras más de medio siglo desde su creación, los estudios sobre el cine y la pantalla siguen siendo un campo colonizado y mayoritariamente eurocéntrico en sus marcos histórico, teórico y crítico. Las películas y becas de estudios de africanos, en particular, y de personas de color, en general, suelen quedar marginados, si no totalmente excluidos. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos AFRISCREENWORLDS tiene como objetivo poner en el punto de mira el cine regional más marginado a través del estudio de «mundos de pantalla», con el foco puesto en África. Basándose en contextos mundiales diversos, el proyecto examina las complejidades de las narrativas audiovisuales y su producción y distribución en la época contemporánea mediante la adopción de métodos académicos, así como creativos y activistas.
Objetivo
A half century since it came into existence, the discipline of Film and Screen Studies remains mostly Eurocentric in its historical, theoretical and critical frameworks. Although “world cinema” and “transnational cinema” scholars have attempted to broaden its canon and frameworks, several major problems persist. Films and scholarship by Africans in particular, and by people of colour in general, are frequently marginalised if not altogether excluded. This prevents exciting exchanges that could help to re-envision Film and Screen Studies for the twenty-first century, in an era in which greater access to the technological means of making films, and circulating them on a range of screens, means that dynamic “screen worlds” are developing at a rapid rate. AFRISCREENWORLDS will study these “screen worlds” (in both their textual forms and industrial structures), with a focus on Africa, as a way of centring the most marginalised regional cinema. We will also elaborate comparative studies of global “screen worlds” – and, in particular, “screen worlds” in the Global South – exploring their similarities, differences, and parallel developments. We will respond to the exclusions of Film and Screen Studies not only in scholarly ways – through conferences and publications – but also in creative and activist ways – through drawing on cutting-edge creative research methodologies (such as audiovisual criticism and filmmaking) and through helping to decolonise Film and Screen Studies (through the production of ‘toolkits’ on how to make curricula, syllabi, and teaching more globally representative and inclusive). On a theoretical level, we will make an intervention through considering how the concept of “screen worlds” is better equipped than “world cinema” or “transnational cinema” to explore the complexities of audiovisual narratives, and their production and circulation in our contemporary moment, in diverse contexts throughout the globe.
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ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitución de acogida
WC1H OXG London
Reino Unido