| Description |
xv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Preface : out with the authentic, in with the Wazimamoto -- Introduction : the creation of a cinema engage -- 1. Did we get off to the wrong start? : toward an aesthetic of surface versus depth -- 2. Sembene's Xala, the fetish, and the failed trickster -- 3. Cameroonian cinema : Ba Kobhio, Teno, and the technologies of power -- 4. From jalopy to goddess : Quartier Mozart, Faat Kine, and Divine carcasse -- 5. Toward a Zizekian reading of African cinema -- 6. Aristotle's plot : what's inside the can? -- 7. Finye : the fantasmic support -- 8. Hyenas : truth, Badiou's Ethics, and the return of the void -- 9. Toward a postmodern African cinema : Fanta Nacre's "Un Certain marin" and Djibril Diop Mambety's Parlons Grand-Mere |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-261) and index |
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Includes filmography: pages [251]-254 |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Africa.
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| LC no. |
2006100896 |
| ISBN |
0253219140 (paperback) |
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0253349095 (hdbk.) |
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9780253219145 (paperback) |
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9780253349095 (hdbk.) |
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