Description |
x, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Development & evolutions -- Critical paradigms -- The problematic legacy of eurocentrism -- Postmodernism or postcoloniality? -- Towards new paradigms -- Cultural identity, representation & voice -- Representing Africa -- Alternative perspectives, or, reassessing identity through film -- Screen griots: orature & film -- Living traditions -- The stylistic & structural influences of orature on film -- Memory, history and other stories -- The 'colonial confontation' genre -- Memory-history films: Afrique je te plumerai; Asientos; Allah Tantou; Fadjal -- Filming the immigrant experience: Francophone African cinema in Europe -- Setting a precedent: Afrique sur seine -- The myth of Europe -- Interracial relationships & immigrant communities -- African women & film: on screen and behind camera -- Directing the Female gaze: Safi Faye; Laure Folly; Fanta R. Nacro -- 'Womanist' films |
Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
Bibliography |
Filmography: pages 218-223 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-217) and index |
Notes |
Some text in French |
Subject |
Motion pictures -- Africa, French-speaking -- History.
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Motion pictures -- Africa, French-speaking.
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Motion pictures -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History.
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SUBJECT |
Africa, French-speaking http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96008812 -- In motion pictures.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002005441
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Africa South of the Sahara -- In motion pictures.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89006431
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LC no. |
2003014793 |
ISBN |
0253216427 (Indiana pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0253343496 (Indiana : alk. paper) |
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0852555768 (James Curry pbk.) |
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0852555776 (James Curry cloth) |
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