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Africa shoots back: perspectives in sub-Saharan Francophone African film/ Melissa Thackway

By: Thackway, Melissa.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oxford: James Currey, 2003Description: x, 230 p. : ill.ISBN: 9780852555767.Subject(s): Motion pictures -- Africa, French-speaking
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Filmography: p. 218-223.

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-217) and index.

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