UID:
almafu_9961152793502883
Umfang:
1 online resource (272 p.)
ISBN:
0-7864-5356-7
Inhalt:
Setting the stage for a critical encounter between Francophone African cinema and Continental European critical theory, this book offers a transnational and interdisciplinary analysis of 16 Francophone African films, including Bassek Ba Kobhio's The Great White Man of Lambarene, Cheick Oumar Sissoko's Guimba the Tyrant, and Amadou Seck's Saaraba. The author invites readers to study these films in the context of transnational conversations between African filmmakers and the conventional theorists whose works are more readily available in academia. The book examines black French filmmakers' trea
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Introduction: engaging African cinema -- "There is no conversation here, my boy": spectral returns of Fanon and Hegel in Bassek Ba Kobhio's The great white man of Lambaréné -- The language you govern in: the rise and fall of the African despot in Balufu Bakupa Kanyinda's Le damier: Papa national oyé and Cheick Oumar Sissoko's Guimba the tyrant -- Nostalgic memories and nomadic spirits: Merzak Allouache's Bab-el-oued and Karim Dridi's Bye-bye -- Allegorizing the quest for autonomy: Cheick Oumar Sissoko's Finzan and Amadou Seck's Saaraba -- Writing the soxual order: Ousmane Sembåne's Faat Kiné and Ngangura Mweze's La vie est belle -- Cogito must have gone crazy: construction and/as deconstruction of masculinity in Nouri Bouzid's Bent familia and Mufida Tlatli's The silences of the palace -- Keita: the heritage of the griot: economic, social, and cultural organization of ancient Africa -- Crisis in French Africa as hexagonal possibility: globalization à la françiaise -- "There is no trade going on there": tales from the killing fields of the Congo -- Conclusion.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-7864-3962-9
Sprache:
Englisch
