Format:
1 online resource (255 pages)
ISBN:
9781787448872
Content:
Weaving together critical analysis and a filmic conversation, this book journeys through the multiple layers of Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno's thematically and aesthetically challenging body of work, framed here as a form of decolonial cinematic resistance
Note:
Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Photographs & -- Stills -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I -- 1 Documentary Filmmaking in Afric -- An Introduction -- Defining Documentary -- Documentary in Africa -- Early African Cinema and the Documentary -- Early African Documentary Practices -- Into the Eighties... -- 2 Critical Insights: Reading the Films of Jean- Marie Teno -- A Film Style: Traits and Evolutions -- Committed Cinema: A Poetics of Resistance -- The Cinematic 'I': Subjectivity, Voice -- (Hi)stories, Memory: Decolonial Readings of the Past -- Reconstructing Archaeologies of Memory -- Decolonizing the Archive -- Spanning Borders in One Stride: Transnationality, Circulations and Exile -- Conclusion: For a Decolonial Aesthetics? -- PART II In Conversation -- In the Beginning... -- First Encounters, First Steps -- First Films -- Filming the Real -- Documentary Practice -- Experimentations, Assemblages -- The Cinematic I -- Journeys -- (Hi)stories, Memory -- De
Language:
English
