Francophone African cinema : history, culture, politics and theory / K. Martial Frindéthié.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frindéthié, Martial K. (Martial Kokroa), 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Africa, French-speaking.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--Africa, French-speaking.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--Africa, French-speaking.

Culture conflict in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Political aspects.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

Africa--In motion pictures.

Africa.

French-speaking Africa.

Physical Description:

viii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2009]

Summary:

"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, including intercontinental encounters and reciprocity, ideology and subjective freedom, governance and moral responsibility, sexuality and social order, and globalization"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-251) and index.

ISBN:

9780786439621

0786439629

OCLC:

277136408