Ousmane Sembène : interviews / edited by Annett Busch and Max Annas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Busch, Annett.

Annas, Max.

Series:

Conversations with filmmakers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007--Interviews.

Sembène, Ousmane.

Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007.

Motion picture producers and directors--Senegal--Interviews.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Senegal.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xxx, 225 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University of Mississippi, [2008]

Summary:

In his fortieth year, Ousmane Sembene (1923-2007) directed the short film Borom Sarret, one of the first films directed by a black African and a movie that brought African cinema to the consciousness of the West. Sembene's subsequent films-including Black Girl, Mandabi, Xala, Ceddo, Faat Kine, and Moolaade-address contemporary African society and cultural issues with the filmmaker's characteristic wit and subtle satire. Known for urban themes and complex female protagonists, Sembene's movies, both in French and in his native language Wolof, are considered pioneering masterworks of African cinema.

Ousmane Sembene: Interviews collects conversations from the mid-1960s to 2005 and spans the breadth of his filmmaking career while also touching on his literary work and his role as a public intellectual. Many of these interviews appear here in English for the first time and come from French, German, African diaspora, and Senegalese periodicals.

Contents:

A Historic Confrontation in 1965 between Jean Rouch and Ousmane Sembene: "You Look at Us as If We Were Insects" / Albert Cervoni 3

Ousmane Sembene: For Me, the Cinema Is an Instrument of Political Action, But ... / Guy Hennebelle 7

We Are Governed in Black Africa by Colonialism's Disabled Children / Guy Hennebelle 18

Filmmakers Have a Great Responsibility to Our People / Harold D. Weaver 24

Ousmane Sembene Interviewed in Munich / Marie Kadour 36

Ousmane Sembene: An Interview / Gerald Peary, Patrick McGilligan 41

African Cinema Is Not a Cinema of Folklore / Siradiou Diallo 52

Interview with Ousmane Sembene / Michael Dembrow, Klaus Troller 63

Interview with Ousmane Sembene / Noureddine Ghali 72

Sembene Ousmane in Kinshasa / Pierre Haffner 82

Interview with Ousmane Sembene / Rolf Richter 99

Interview with Ousmane Sembene / Ulrich Gregor 105

In the Name of Tolerance: A Meeting with Ousmane Sembene / Josie Fanon 112

Samori: The Last Grand Oeuvre of Sembene Ousmane / Alione Toure Dia 117

I Am Tired, My Desire Is to Leave / Meissa Diop 125

The Language of Real Life / Kwate Nee Owoo 131

If I Were a Woman, I'd Never Marry an African / Firinne Ni Chreachain 134

Ousmane Sembene / James A. Jones 143

Interview with Ousmane Sembene / Francoise Pfaff 151

Interview with Ousmane Sembene about Guelwaar / Bernd Wolpert 163

Ousmane Sembene / David Murphy 169

Still the Fire in the Belly: The Confessions of Ousmane Sembene / Mamadou Niang 178

Interview with Ousmane Sembene / Samba Gadjigo 190

The Power of Female Solidarity: An Interview with Ousmane Sembene / Jared Rapfogel, Richard Porton 197

Ousmane Sembene / Bonnie Greer 210.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes filmography: pages [xxv]-xxx.

ISBN:

9781934110850

193411085X

9781934110867

1934110868

OCLC:

181424139