| Description |
xxiv, 356 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Introduction / Kenneth W. Harrow -- Pt. 1. Theorizing African Cinema: Postcolonial Perspectives. The Theoretical Construction of African Cinema / Stephen Zacks. African Filmmaking and the Postcolonial Predicament: Quartier Mozart and Aristotle's Plot / Jonathan Haynes. Towards a Theory of Orality in African Cinema / Keyan Tomaselli, Arnold Shepperson and Maureen Eke -- Pt. 2. Studies in Postcolonial Films. A Problematic Sign of African Difference in Trinh T. Minh-ha's Reassemblage / Stephen A. Zacks. Look Homeward, Angel. Maroons and Mulattos in Haile Gerima's Sankofa / Sylvie Kande. The Missing Narrative in Wend Kuuni (Time and Space) / Marie-Magdaleine Chirol. Yeelen: A Political Fable of the Komo Blacksmiths/Sorcerers / Suzanne H. MacRae -- Pt. 3. The Question of National Cinemas. Nigerian Cinema: Structural Adjustments / Jonathan Haynes. Portuguese African Cinema: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, 1969-1993 / Claire Andrade-Watkins |
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A Window on Whose Reality? The Emerging Industry of Senegalese Cinema / Elizabeth Mermin -- Pt. 4. Feminist Approaches to African Cinema. Women with Open Eyes, Women of Stone and Hammers: Western Feminism and African Feminist Filmmaking Practice / Kenneth W. Harrow. The Mature and Older Women of African Film / Suzanne MacRae. The Locus of Tension: Gender in Algerian Cinema / Ratiba Hadj-Moussa. Sub-Saharan African Women Filmmakers: Agendas for Research / Nancy J. Schmidt. Women in African Cinema: An Annotated Bibliography / Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol |
| Summary |
These essays speak to contemporary issues in African cinema. They address key aspects of post-colonialism and feminism - the two major topics of interest in current criticism. Issues of spectatorship, national identity, ethnography, patriarchy, women's roles, and the creation of key film industries-issues that animate the discussion of film today are central to this volume |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, filmographies, and index |
| Subject |
Feminism and motion pictures -- Africa.
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Feminism -- Africa.
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Motion pictures -- Africa.
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Postcolonialism and motion pictures -- Africa
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Postcolonialism -- Africa.
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| Author |
Harrow, Kenneth W.
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| LC no. |
98037159 |
| ISBN |
0865436967 (hardbound) |
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0865436975 (paperback) |
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