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Join us on Zoom: https:\/\/umich.zoom.us\/j\/99340604276\r\n\r\n--------\r\nThis talk suggests the term \u201cpetronoir\u201d to describe prestige and art films from Africa that re-tool the narrative and formal conventions of film noir to denounce the endlessly deferred promises of oil-based national development and infrastructural modernity. The films analyzed in this presentation detail patchwork, failed, or underdeveloped petroleum infrastructures across several African cities and closely examine the novel forms of labor and sociality that emerge in response to energy shortage. These films project infrastructural longing and, at the same time, testify to the creativity of Africans living with under-resourced energy distribution networks. \r\n\r\nIn these ways, petronoir African cinema intervenes in the dominant discourse of climate crisis and energy transition. It reminds us that our efforts to address global warming and break free from fossil fuels must grapple with the modest and justified energy demands of those on the margins of petromodernity.\r\n\r\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\r\n\r\nDr. Garritano works at the intersection of politics and film and media, and her research has been supported by Fulbright IIE, the West African Research Association, and the US Department of Education\u2019s FLAS program. Trained in African area studies, her writing combines theoretically-grounded inquiry with ethnographic and archival research methods. Her first book, \"African Video Movies and Global Desires: A Ghanaian History\" (Ohio University Press, 2013), is a historical account of movie production in Ghana, beginning with the first films of the Gold Coast Colonial Film Unit, through the struggles of the Ghana Film Industry Corporation, and finally to the emergence and growth of a loosely-configured, commercial movie industry between the late 1980s and 2010. The book was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and was awarded The First Book Award by the African Literature Association. \r\n\r\nAdditionally, she is co-editor, with Kenneth W. Harrow, of \"A Companion to African Cinema\" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019), a volume that brings together some of the most exciting writing on African film and media today. It spotlights research that draws from well-established methods, such as postcolonial theory, as well as new work informed by affect theory, film festival studies, and sound studies. \r\n\r\nDr. Garritano has also published writing on African literature, postcolonialism, and Nollywood. 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