Critical approach to African cinema discourse / edited by Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike ; contributors Jude G. Akudinobi [and twelve others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ukadike, Nwachukwu Frank, editor.

Akudinobi, Jude G, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Africa--History and criticism.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Study and teaching (Higher)--Africa.

Africa--In motion pictures.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book emphasizes the plurality of African cinema through a variety of themes and critical approaches that illuminate the scope of the mobilizing techniques for its proliferation, as well as its deep concern for methods of production, film aesthetics, theory, and criticism. Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse will offer scholars and students in film, media, and cultural studies, as well as in history, and Black and African studies, a broader understanding of African cinema as a cultural art. The contributors show

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Critical Perspectives; Chapter One: Approaches to African Cinema Study; Chapter Two: Theorizing African Cinema; Chapter Three: Tradition/Modernity and the Discourse of African Cinema; II: History/Discourse and Intervention; Chapter Four: Queering African Film Aesthetics: A Survey from the 1950s to 2003; Chapter Five: African Cinemas and the Role of the State; Chapter Six: Transformation and South African Cinema in the 1990s; Chapter Seven: False Dawns over the Kalahari?; III: Pluralisms, Expressions, Traits: Reading the Text

Chapter Eight: Chahine's Cinematic AlexandriaChapter Nine: Critical Dialogues; Chapter Ten: Relational Constructs; Chapter Eleven: Reconsidering the Sembenian Project; IV: "Reel" Africanization; Chapter Twelve: Video Book and the Manifestation of "First" Cinema in Anglophone Africa; Chapter Thirteen: We Can't Wait for Oliver Stone; Index; About the Contributors

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7391-8094-0

OCLC:

876592426