African cinema : manifesto and practice for cultural decolonization. Volume 1, Colonial antecedents, constituents, theory, and articulations / edited by Michael T. Martin and Gaston J.M. Kaboré ; with Allison J. Brown, Cole Nelson, and Joseph E. Roskos.
Publisher:
Indiana University Press,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
xiv, 620 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
On Decoloniality: African and Diasporic Cinema / Michael T. Martin and Gaston J. M. Kaboré -- Part I: Colonial Formations -- Colonial Cinema / Roy Armes -- The Colonialist Regime of Representation, 1945-1960 / James E. Genova -- Politics of Cultural Conversion in Colonialist African Cinema / Femi Okiremuette Shaka -- The African Bioscope: Movie-House Culture in British Colonial Africa / James Burns -- From the Inside: The Colonial Film Unit and the Beginning of the End / Tom Rice -- The Independence Generation: Film Culture and the Anti-Colonial Struggle in the 1950s / Odile Goerg -- Part II: Constituting African Cinema -- What is Cinema for Us? / Med Hondo -- A Cinema Fighting for Its Liberation / Férid Boughedir -- Where Are the African Women Filmmakers? / Haile Gerima-- The FEPACI and Its Artistic Legacies / Sada Niang -- New Avenues for FEPACI: Interview with Seipati Bulane-Hopa / Monique Mbeka Phoba -- The Six Decades of African Film / Olivier Barlet -- Africa, The Last Cinema / Clyde Taylor -- The Pan-African Cinema Movement: Achievements, Misadventures, and Failures (1969-2020) / Férid Boughedir -- Part III: Theorizing African Cinema -- African Cinema(s): Denitions, Identity, and Theoretical Considerations / Alexie Tcheuyap -- Theorizing African Cinema: Contemporary African Cinematic Discourse and Its Discontents / Esiaba Irobi -- The Theoretical Construction of African Cinema / Stephen A. Zacks -- Towards a Critical Theory of Third World Films / Teshome H. Gabriel -- Africans Filming Africa: Questioning Theories of an Authentic African Cinema / David Murphy -- Tradition/Modernity and the Discourse of African Cinema / Jude Akudinobi -- Towards a Theory of Orality in African Cinema / Keyan G. Tomaselli, Arnold Shepperson, and Maureen Eke -- Film and the Problem of Languages in Africa / Paulin Soumanou Vieyra -- In Defense of African Film Studies / Boukary Sawadogo -- Part IV: Articulations of African Cinema -- Dossier 1: Key Dates in the History of African Cinema / curated by Olivier Barlet and Claude Forest -- Dossier 2: Ousmane Sembène / curated by Samba Gadjigo and Sada Niang -- Sembène's Legacy to FESPACO / Samba Gadjigo and Sada Niang -- Vigil for a Centennial / Ousmane Sembéne -- Cinema as Evening School / Ousmane Sembéne -- Statement at Ouagadougou (1979) / Ousmane Sembéne -- Art for Man's Sake: A Tribute to Ousmane Sembène / Samba Gadjigo -- On "Mediated Solidarity": Reading Ousmane Sembène in Sembène! / Michael T. Martin -- Ousmane Sembène: An Annotated Gallery / Cole Nelson -- Dossier 3: African Women in Cinema / curated by Beti Ellerson.
Summary:
"Volume One of this landmark series on African cinema draws together foundational scholarship on its history and evolution. Beginning with the ideological project of colonial film to legitimize the economic exploitation and cultural hegemony of the African continent during imperial rule to its counter-historical formation and theorization. It comprises essays by film scholars and filmmakers alike, among them Roy Armes, Med Hondo, Fèrid Boughedir, Haile Gerima, Oliver Barlet, Teshome Gabriel, and David Murphy, including three distinct dossiers: a timeline of key dates in the history of African cinema; a comprehensive chronicle and account of the contributions by African women in cinema; and a homage and overview of Ousmane Sembène, the 'Father' of African cinema."-- Page 4 of cover.
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