| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (92 min.)) : sound, color |
| Summary |
Gaston Kaboré's film Zan Boko explores the conflict between tradition and modernity, a central theme in many contemporary African films, such as Keita and Ta Dona. It tells the poignant story of a village family swept up in the current tide of urbanization. In doing so, Zan Boko expertly reveals the transformation of an agrarian, subsistence society into an industrialized commodity economy. Zan Boko is also one of the first African films to explore the impact of the mass media in changing an oral society into one where information is packaged and sold. The film provides viewers with a unique opportunity to see our own televised civilization through the eyes of the traditional societies it is replacing |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Sékou Ouedraogo; editors, Andrée Davanture, Marie-Jeanne Kanyala; music, Henri Guédon, Don Cherry |
| Cast |
Joseph Nikiema, Colette Kaboré, Célestin N. Zongo |
| Notes |
In Mooré and French with English subtitles |
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Online resource; title from opening screens (viewed July 12, 2021) |
| Subject |
Urbanization -- Burkina Faso -- Drama
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Social conditions.
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Urbanization.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa, West -- Social conditions -- Drama
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Burkina Faso -- Social conditions -- Drama
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| Subject |
West Africa.
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Burkina Faso.
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| Genre/Form |
Drama.
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Feature films.
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Feature films.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Kaboré, Gaston, 1951- director.
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Nikiema, Joseph, actor.
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Kaboré, Colette, actor.
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Zongo, Célestin, actor.
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Kanyala, Marie-Jeanne, editor of moving image work.
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Davanture, Andrée, 1933-2014, editor of moving image work
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California Newsreel (Firm), distributor.
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