ABSTRACT

This special issue unpacks the broad affective, aesthetic and material dimensions of African visuality, spatiality and temporality in cinematic imaginaries of the African city. The submissions evoke issues of specificity and materiality, reading the African city as cinematic form. They are situated within an interdisciplinary matrix that contributes to intellectual engagement with African cinemas through, among others, affect theory and the city as a matrix of feeling; critical black geography and the racialized construction city spaces; the urban as a temporal consciousness; and representations of social inequalities and urban geographies of exclusion. Through a range of genres the submissions unpack the histories, citizenships and sexualities that shape the cinematic imaginaries of Nairobi, Luanda, Johannesburg and Cape Town, concurrently reflecting on the erasure of the African city in Hollywoodian cinematic form.

摘要

本期特刊揭示了非洲城市电影想象中非洲视觉、空间和时间的广泛情感、美学和物质维度。提交的作品唤起了特殊性和重要性的问题，将非洲城市解读为电影形式。它们位于一个跨学科的矩阵中，通过影响理论和城市作为感觉矩阵，促进了与非洲电影的智力参与；批判的黑色地理和种族化的建筑城市空间；城市作为一种时间意识；以及社会不平等和城市排斥地理的表现。通过一系列类型的提交，揭示了塑造内罗毕、罗安达、约翰内斯堡和开普敦的电影想象的历史、公民身份和性取向，