Table of Contents

Illustrations Credits Acknowledgements 1. The Trouble with Beauty: Reimagining African Film Aesthetics 2. On the Front Line: In/visible Violence, Formations of Style, and Aesthetic Resistance 3. Screening Dakar: Locating Beauty in the Afropolis 4. Voice, Language, Mystery: From Ideological Struggle to Aesthetic Shudder 5. Queering the Baobab: Male Intimacy, the Erotics of Abstraction, and the Right to Beauty 6. On the Border, Becoming World: Migrant Beauty, Migratory Narratives, and the Transmigration of Cinematic Form 7. The Afropolitan Present Notes Works Cited Filmography Index

About the Author

James S. Williams is Professor of Modern French Literature and Film at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of Encounters with Godard: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics (2016), Space and Being in Contemporary French Cinema (2013) and Jean Cocteau (2008). He is also co-editor of May 68: Rethinking France’s Last Revolution (2011, with Anna-Louise Milne and Julian T. Jackson), For Ever Godard (2004, with Michael Temple and Michael Witt) and Gender and French Cinema (2001, with Alex Hughes).