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African cinema :

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African cinema :

[Book]

postcolonial and feminist readings /

edited by Kenneth W. Harrow

Trenton, NJ :

Africa World Press,

[1999]

©1999

xxiv, 356 pages :

illustrations ;

22 cm

Includes bibliographical references, filmographies, and index

pt. 1, Theorizing African cinema : postcolonial perspectives -- 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 Kandé -- The missing narrative in Wend Kuuni (Time and space) / Marie-Madgaleine Chirol -- Yeelen : a political fable of the Kome 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 -- 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 focus 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

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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

African cinema.

Feminism and motion pictures-- Africa

Motion pictures-- Africa

Cinéma - Afrique

Féminisme et cinéma - Afrique

Harrow, Kenneth W

20160712064127.0

[Book]

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