ABSTRACT This special themed issue of Communicatio explores the profound transformation of the political, cultural and intellectual contours of Africa from the vantage point of African film and grounded within the theoretical and epistemological discourses of trauma studies, memory studies, postcolonial studies, and decolonial studies. The contributors are particularly interested in exploring the relational flows between African cinematic works and the social and imaginary circumstances of their production, engagement and representation. Through an explication of the screen and viewing cultures from Africa, this themed issue wishes to make three contributions. The first is to the already established but on-going scholarly work of trauma studies, but specifically from an African, cinematic vantage point. The second contribution is to the theoretical body of work on African cinema (and in this context, “cinematic” includes both film/television). And the last contribution is to the emerging view that culture is a “two-way street,” to put it colloquially: a reversal of the dominant “Western” direction of culture, with an emphasis on different tones of social values and contexts, that have been marginalised in mainstream popular culture discourses.

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银幕上的创伤：来自南部非洲的电影视角

摘要 本期通讯特刊从非洲电影的角度，以创伤研究、记忆研究、后殖民研究和去殖民研究的理论和认识论话语为基础，探讨了非洲政治、文化和知识轮廓的深刻转变。撰稿人对探索非洲电影作品与其制作、参与和表现的社会和想象环境之间的关系流特别感兴趣。本期通过对非洲屏幕文化和观看文化的阐释，希望做出三个贡献。第一个是已经建立但正在进行的创伤研究学术工作，但特别是从非洲电影的有利位置。第二个贡献是对非洲电影的理论工作（在这种情况下，“电影”包括电影/电视）。最后一个贡献是新兴的观点，即文化是一条“双向街道”，通俗地说：文化的主导“西方”方向的逆转，强调社会价值观和背景的不同基调，即在主流流行文化话语中被边缘化。