African filmmaking : North and South of the Sahara / Roy Armes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armes, Roy.

Series:

Traditions in world cinema.

Traditions in world cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Africa.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture industry--Africa.

Motion picture industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Scotland : Edinburgh U.P., 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara is the first comprehensive study in English linking filmmaking in the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) with that in francophone West Africa and examining the factors (including Islam and the involvement of African and French governments) which have shaped post-independence production. The main focus is the development over forty years of two main traditions of African filmmaking: a social realist strand examining the nature of postcolonial society and a more experimental approach where emphasis is placed on new stylistic patterns able to embrace history, myth and magic. The work of younger filmmakers born since independence is examined in the light of these two traditions. Features: *An overview of the socio-political context shaped by Islam and French colonialism. *A look at filmmaking in Africa before the mid-1960s. *An examination of the inputs of African and French governments into post-independence developments North and South of the Sahara. *A historical survey of the two major tendencies in African film production over the past 40 years. *A detailed analysis of the work of five talented young filmmakers, representative of those born since independence.

Contents:

Introduction

The African experience

pt. I. Context

Beginnings

African initiatives

The French connection

pt. II. Confronting reality

Liberation and postcolonial society

Individual struggle

pt. III. New identities

Experimental narratives

Exemplary tales

pt. IV. The new millennium

The post-independence generation

Mahamat Saleh Haroun (Chad)

Dani Kouyaté (Burkina Faso)

Raja Amari (Tunisia)

Faouzi Bensaidi (Morocco)

Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritania).

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610553952

9780748670789

0748670785

9780748679232

0748679235

9781280553950

1280553952

9780748628063

0748628061

OCLC:

476009374