| Description |
xi, 239 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Availability of African films -- Introduction: Representing postcolonial African cinema -- 1. Youssef Chahine -- 2. Ousmane Sembene -- 3. Med Hondo -- 4. Djibril Diop Mambety -- 5. Souleymane Cisse -- 6. Flora Gomes -- 7. Idrissa Ouedraogo -- 8. Moufida Tlatli -- 9. Jean-Pierre Bekolo -- 10. Darrell James Roodt |
| Summary |
"This is the first introduction of its kind to an important cross-section of postcolonial African filmmakers from the 1950s to the present. Building on previous critical work in the field, this volume will bring together ideas from a range of disciplines - film studies, African cultural studies, and, in particular, postcolonial studies - in order to combine the in-depth analysis of individual films and bodies of work by individual directors with a sustained interrogation of these films in relation to important theoretical concepts." "This book thus constitutes a new departure in African film studies, recognising the maturity of the field, and the need for complex yet accessible approaches to it, which move beyond the purely descriptive while refusing to get bogged down in theoretical jargon. Consequently, the volume should be of interest not only to specialists but also to the general reader."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Motion picture producers and directors -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
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Postcolonialism -- Africa.
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| Author |
Williams, Patrick, 1951-
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| LC no. |
013829067 |
| ISBN |
9780719072024 (hbk.) |
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0719072026 (hbk.) |
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9780719072031 (paperback) |
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0719072034 (paperback) |
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