Critical Studies in Media Communication, Volume 37, Issue 4 (2020)

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Afrofuturism’s Transcultural Trajectories

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Afrofuturist trajectories across time, space and media
Eva Ulrike Pirker & Judith Rahn
Pages: 283-297
Published online: 25 Sep 2020
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Section One – Trajectories of Alternative Visions on Three Continents

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“Afrotopia?”: an Afrofuturist examination of Chad Hartigan’s film Morris from America (2016)
Ousmane Power-Greene
Pages: 298-309
Published online: 13 Oct 2020
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Reframing the post-apocalypse in Black British film: the dystopian Afrofuturism of Welcome II the Terrordome and Shank
Felipe Espinoza Garrido
Pages: 310-323
Published online: 23 Sep 2020
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Wangari Maathai’s environmental Afrofuturist imaginary in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi
James Wachira
Pages: 324-336
Published online: 25 Sep 2020
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Section Two – Afrofuturist Soundscapes

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A question of the sonic: problematizing Afrofuturism and its relation to Black Sound, with a case study of DJ Steloolive’s performance art
Cezara Nicola
Pages: 337-349
Published online: 12 Oct 2020
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The cosmic submarine—Yugen Blakrok’s sonar echoes
Pius Jonas Vögele
Pages: 350-363
Published online: 12 Oct 2020
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Section Three – Envisioning Afrofutures in Literature and Film

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Math and magic: Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti trilogy and its challenge to the dominance of Western science in science fiction
Bettina Burger
Pages: 364-377
Published online: 28 Sep 2020
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Wakanda Africa do you see? Reading Black Panther as a decolonial film through the lens of the Sankofa theory
Elisabeth Abena Osei
Pages: 378-390
Published online: 22 Sep 2020
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Book Review

Book Review
Feminist media studies
by Alison Harvey, Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, 2020, 211 pp., $24.95 USD (paperback), ISBN: 9781509524471
Sarah Stang
Pages: 391-393
Published online: 21 Aug 2020
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