Bay Lodyans Haitian Popular Film Culture
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 133.00
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.08.2023
Verlag
Ingram Publishers ServicesSeitenzahl
254
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.7/2 cm
Gewicht
568 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4384-9385-5
Considers how popular Haitian films not only provide entertainment but also help audiences in Haiti and the diaspora think through daily challenges. Honorable Mention, for the 2025 Book Prize presented by the Haitian Studies Association In Haitian Creole, bay lodyans means to tell stories to an audience, and more generally, to entertain. This book is the first to analyze popular contemporary Haitian films, looking especially at how they respond to the needs and desires of Haitian audiences in and beyond Haiti. Produced between 2000 and 2018 and largely shot with digital cameras and sometimes cellphones, these films focus on the complexities of community, nostalgia, belonging, identity, and the emotional landscapes of exile and diaspora. They reflect sociopolitical and cultural issues related to family, language, im/migration, religion, gender, sexuality, and economic hardship. Using storytelling and other less traditionally "academic" techniques, Cécile Accilien advances Haitian epistemological frameworks. Bay Lodyans integrates terms and concepts from Haitian culture, such as jerans and kafou (derived from the French words for "to manage" and "crossroads," respectively) and includes interviews with Haitian filmmakers, actors, and scholars in order to challenge the dominance of Western theoretical approaches and perspectives.
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