UID:
almafu_9959233067002883
Format:
1 online resource (301 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-7391-8094-0
Content:
This book emphasizes the plurality of African cinema through a variety of themes and critical approaches that illuminate the scope of the mobilizing techniques for its proliferation, as well as its deep concern for methods of production, film aesthetics, theory, and criticism. Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse will offer scholars and students in film, media, and cultural studies, as well as in history, and Black and African studies, a broader understanding of African cinema as a cultural art. The contributors show
Note:
Includes index.
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Critical Perspectives; Chapter One: Approaches to African Cinema Study; Chapter Two: Theorizing African Cinema; Chapter Three: Tradition/Modernity and the Discourse of African Cinema; II: History/Discourse and Intervention; Chapter Four: Queering African Film Aesthetics: A Survey from the 1950s to 2003; Chapter Five: African Cinemas and the Role of the State; Chapter Six: Transformation and South African Cinema in the 1990s; Chapter Seven: False Dawns over the Kalahari?; III: Pluralisms, Expressions, Traits: Reading the Text
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Chapter Eight: Chahine's Cinematic AlexandriaChapter Nine: Critical Dialogues; Chapter Ten: Relational Constructs; Chapter Eleven: Reconsidering the Sembenian Project; IV: "Reel" Africanization; Chapter Twelve: Video Book and the Manifestation of "First" Cinema in Anglophone Africa; Chapter Thirteen: We Can't Wait for Oliver Stone; Index; About the Contributors
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7391-8093-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-306-57339-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
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