Francophone African women documentary filmmakers : beyond representation / edited by Suzanne Crosta, Sada Niang, and Alexie Tcheuyap.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crosta, Suzanne, 1958- editor.

Niang, Sada, 1953- editor.

Tcheuyap, Alexie, editor.

Series:

Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--Africa, French-speaking--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Motion picture producers and directors--Africa, French-speaking.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Women motion picture producers and directors--Africa, French-speaking.

Women motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers is groundbreaking edited collection which explores the contributions of Francophone African women to the field of documentary filmmaking.Rich in its scope and critical vision it constitutes a timely contribution to cutting-edge scholarly debates on African cinemas.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction, by Suzanne Crosta, Sada Niang, and Alexie Tcheuyap

1. Documenting the Unseemly: Moroccan Women's Documentaries in the Early Twenty-First Century, by Florence Martin

2. Outsiders on the Inside: Rokhaya Diallo's Les marches de la liberté as Activist Documentary, by Sheila Petty

3. Challenging Documentary Practice: A Return to Safi Faye's Kaddu Beykat, by Melissa Thackway

4. Revisiting the "Domestic Ethnography" Approach in Khady Sylla's Une Fenêtre ouverte, by El Hadji Moustapha Diop

5. Tales of Colonels: Auteurship and Authority in Mama Colonel (2017) and This Is Congo (2017), by Alexie Tcheuyap and Félix Veilleux

6. Authorizing Reality in Leila Kilani's Our Forbidden Places (2008) and Kaouther Ben Hania's The Slasher of Tunis (2014), by Suzanne Gauch

7. Documenting Tyranny: The Politics of Memory in Leila Kilani and Osvalde Lewat, by Hervé Tchumkam

8. Ecological Representations in African Women Documentaries, by Suzanne Crosta

9. Looping the Loop: Rama Thiaw's The Revolution Won't Be Televised (2016), by Sada Niang

10. Dancing with the Camera: Interview with Nadine Otsobogo, by Suzanne Crosta, Sada Niang, and Alexie Tcheuyap

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Crosta, Suzanne Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers

ISBN:

9780253066541

OCLC:

1377283170