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1 online resource (234 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Foreword: If I'm Wrong, I'm Right; Introduction: Revising the Classics: Opening Up the Archives of African Cinema; Part I. Lost Histories 1924-69; 1 The Birth of North African Cinema; 2 'Lost Classics' in Context: Film Production in South Africa, 1920-1960; 3 Francophone West African Cinema, 1955-1969: False starts and new beginnings; Part II. North Africa; 4 Forgotten Women, Lost Histories: Selma Baccar's Fatma 75 (1978) and Assia Djebar's La Nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua (1978) |
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5 Naked Nation: Youth, Masculinity, and the Coming Revolution in Man of Ashes (Nouri Bouzid, 1986)6 Postcolonialism at Sea: the tragic Ends of History in Badis (Mohamed A. tazi, 1989); 7 Al Masir/Destiny (Youssef Chahine, 1997): 'a luta continua'; Part III. South Africa; 8 Jannie Totsiens (Jans Rautenbach, 1970): Of Love, Loss, and Lunacy; 9 Boesman and Lena (Ross Devenish, 1973): the Politics of Place and Performance; 10 The Stick (Darrell Roodt, 1987): A Mental State; 11 Fools (Ramadan Suleman, 1997): or, the importance of being able to tell 'messy' stories at the 'wrong' time |
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Part IV. Francophone Africa12 Toads and Cowboys: tracing a Popular African Cinema in Moustapha Alassane's Le Retour d'un aventurier (1966) and Bon Voyage Sim (1966); 13 Soleil O (Med Hondo, 1967): 'they cannot represent themselves; 14 Badou Boy (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1970): Intertextuality, Gangster Movies, and the Language of African Film; 15 Cinema and Nation-Building: Muna Moto (Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa, 1975); 16 Aristotle's Plot (Jean-Pierre Bekolo, 1997): A refusal to 'find' African cinema?; Part V. Anglophone West Africa |
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17 Heritage Africa (Kwaw Ansah, 1983): A Cinema of Political Violence18 A Nollywood Classic: Living in Bondage (Kenneth Nnebue, 1992/1993); 19 Lost in Music? Race, Culture, and Identity in Rage (Newton I. Aduaka, 2000); Part VI. Lusophone Africa; 20 The Birth of Fiction: On Mueda, Memória e Massacre (Ruy Guerra, 1979); 21 Udju Azul di Yonta/The Blue Eyes of Yonta (Flora Gomes, 1992): Lost Dreams/Lost in Dreams?; Part VII. East Africa; 22 Harvest 3000 Years/Mïrt Sost Shi Amät (Haile Gerima, 1976): A Revolutionary Ethiopian Film |
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23 Women's Stories and Struggles in These Hands (Flora M'mbugu-Schelling, 1992)Bibliography; Filmography; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Murphy, David
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| ISBN |
9781351577397 |
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1351577395 |
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