Francophone African cinema
"This book offers a transnational and interdisciplinary analysis of 16 Francophone African films studied in the context of transnational conversations between African filmmakers and conventional theorists. It examines black French filmmakers' treatments of a number of cross-cultural themes...
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| Glavni autor: | Frindéthié, Martial Kokroa (-) |
| Vrsta građe: | Knjiga |
| Jezik: | eng |
| Impresum: |
Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland,
cop. 2009.
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Sadržaj:
- 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.