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Africa shoots back : alternative perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African film /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thackway, Melissa
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Africa, French-speaking.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Development & evolutions
  • Critical paradigms
  • The problematic legacy of eurocentrism
  • Postmodernism or postcoloniality?
  • Towards new paradigms
  • Cultural identity, representation & voice
  • Representing Africa
  • Alternative perspectives, or, reassessing identity through film
  • Screen griots: orature & film
  • Living traditions
  • The stylistic & structural influences of orature on film
  • Memory, history and other stories
  • The 'colonial confontation' genre
  • Memory-history films: Afrique je te plumerai; Asientos; Allah Tantou; Fadjal
  • Filming the immigrant experience: Francophone African cinema in Europe
  • Setting a precedent: Afrique sur seine
  • The myth of Europe
  • Interracial relationships & immigrant communities
  • African women & film: on screen and behind camera
  • Directing the Female gaze: Safi Faye; Laure Folly; Fanta R. Nacro
  • 'Womanist' films.