Description du projet
Placer le cinéma africain marginalisé sous les projecteurs
Plus d’un demi-siècle après leur création, les études sur le cinéma et l’écran restent un domaine colonisé, essentiellement eurocentrique dans ses cadres historiques, théoriques et critiques. Les films et les travaux réalisés par des Africains en particulier, et par des personnes de couleur en général, sont souvent marginalisés, voire totalement exclus. Le projet AFRISCREENWORLDS, financé par l’UE, entend mettre en lumière le cinéma régional le plus marginalisé par l’étude des «mondes de l’écran», en se focalisant sur l’Afrique. En s’appuyant sur divers contextes globaux, le projet explore les complexités des récits audiovisuels, leur production et leur circulation dans notre époque contemporaine, en adoptant des méthodes scientifiques, créatives et militantes.
Objectif
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 GrantInstitution d’accueil
WC1H OXG London
Royaume-Uni