UID:
almahu_9949865799802882
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 217 pages ):
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illustrations.
ISBN:
9781315097534
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1315097532
Series Statement:
Moving image ; 5
Content:
Until recently, the story of African film was marked by a series of truncated histories: many outstanding films from earlier decades were virtually inaccessible and thus often excluded from critical accounts. However, various conservation projects since the turn of the century have now begun to make many of these films available to critics and audiences in a way that was unimaginable just a decade ago. In this accessible and lively collection of essays, Lizelle Bisschoff and David Murphy draw together the best scholarship on the diverse and fragmented strands of African film history. Their volume recovers over 30 'lost' African classic films from 1920-2010 in order to provide a more complex genealogy and begin to trace new histories of African filmmaking: from 1920s Egyptian melodramas through lost gems from apartheid South Africa to neglected works by great Francophone directors, the full diversity of African cinema will be revealed.
Note:
Foreword : If I'm wrong, I'm right /
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Introduction : Revising the classics : opening up the archives of African cinema /
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Lost histories, 1924-69 --
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The birth of North African cinema /
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"Lost classics" in context : film production in South Africa 1920-1960 /
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Francophone West African cinema, 1955-1969 : false starts and new beginnings /
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North Africa --
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Forgotten women, lost histories : Selma Baccar's Fatma 75 (1978) and Assia Djebar's La Nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua (1978) /
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Naked nation : youth, masculinity, and the coming revolution in Man of ashes (Nouri Bouzid, 1986) /
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Postcolonialism at sea : the tragic ends of history in Badis (Mohamed A. Tazi, 1989) /
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Al Masir/Destiny (Youssef Chahine, 1997) : "a luta continua" /
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South Africa --
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Jannie Totsiens (Jans Rautenbach, 1970) : of love, loss, and lunacy /
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Boesman and Lena (Ross Devenish, 1973) : the politics of place and peformance /
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The stick (Darrell Roodt, 1987) : a mental state /
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Fools (Ramadan Suleman, 1997) : or, the importance of being able to tell "messy" stories at the "wrong" time /
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Francophone Africa --
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Toads and cowboys : tracing a popular African cinema in Moustapha Alassane's Le Retour d'un aventurier (1966) and Bon voyage Sim (1966) /
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Soleil O (Med Hondo, 1969) : "they cannot represent themselves ..." /
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Badou boy (Djibril Diop Mambéy, 1970) : intertextuality, gangster movies, and the language of African film /
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Cinema and nation-building : Muna moto (Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa, 1975) /
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Aristotle's plot (Jean-Pierre Bekolo, 1997)) : a refusal to "find" African cinema? /
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Anglophone West Africa --
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Heritage Africa (Kwaw Ansah, 1983) : a cinema of political violence /
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A Nollywood classic : Living in bondage (Kenneth Nnebue, 1992/1993) /
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Lost in music? Race, culture, and identity in Rage (Newton I. Aduaka, 2000) /
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Lusophone Africa --
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The birth of fiction : On Mueda, memória e massacre (Ruy Guerra, 1979) /
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Udju azul di Yonta/The blue eyes of Yonta (Flora Gomes, 1992) : lost dreams/lost in dreams? /
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East Africa --
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Harvest 3000 years/Mïrt sost shi amät (Haile Gerima, 1976) : a revolutionary Ethiopian film /
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Women's stories and struggles in These hands (Flora M'mbugu-Schelling, 1992) /
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781907975516
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1907975519
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367598945
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0367598949
Language:
English
Keywords:
History
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315097534
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