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Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse

von: Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike, Jude G. Akudinobi, Roy Armes, Martin P. Botha, Esiaba Irobi, Suzanne H. MacRae, Martin Mhando, Neil Parsons, Sheila Petty, Aboubakar S. Sanogo, Arnold Shepperson, Keyan G. Tomaselli
119,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	27.02.2014
ISBN/EAN:	9780739180945
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	304

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Titelbeschreibung

Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to lay bare the diversity and essence of African cinema discourse. It is an anthology of historical reflections, critical essays, and interviews by film critics, historians, theorists, and filmmakers that signifies a dialogue and engagement apropos the ideology and cultural politics of film production in Africa. The contributors are extremely concerned, not only with the history of African cinema, but with its future and its potential. This book, then, is not limited to the expansion of the discourse on African cinema, but tries to approach the definition of the critical canon within the exigencies and manifestations of art and African sociopolitical practices. The authors view these practices as an investment in a cultural imperative stemming from the quest to delineate how critical methodologies are derived from and shape contemporary historical and cultural practices. Hence, the contributions are less about the usual constrictive method of analysis and more about illustrating manifestations of an interrogative critical methodology that is certainly an offspring of an indigenous African critical cum cinematic culture and paradigms.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

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 that it is informed not only by ideological determinants but also by the concern to boost perspectives for reading African film images that may or may not belong to the conventional interpretations proffered in Euro-American critical paradigms.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Proliferating African Film Discourses N. Frank Ukadike Part One: Critical Perspectives Chapter 1: Approaches to African Cinema Study: Defining Other Boundaries Martin Mhando Chapter 2: Theorizing African Cinema: Contemporary African Cinematic Discourse and its Discontents Esiaba Irobi Chapter 3: Tradition/Modernity and the Discourse of African Cinema Jude Akudinobi Part Two: History/Discourse and Intervention Chapter 4: Queering African Film Aesthetics: A Survey from 1950s to 2003 Martin P. Botha Chapter 5: African Cinemas and the Role of the State: The Cultural Imperialism Model Roy Armes Chapter 6: Transformation and South African Cinema in the 1990s Keyan G. Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson Chapter 7: False Dawns Over the Kalahari? Botswana Cinema in Historical Perspective Neil Parsons Part Three: Pluralisms, Expressions, Traits: Reading the Text Chapter 8: Chahine’s Cinematic Alexandria: Egyptian History and Cultural Identity Suzanne H. MacRae Chapter 9: Critical Dialogues: Transcultural Modernities and Modes of Narrating Africa in Documentary Films N. Frank Ukadike Chapter 10: Relational Constructs: Discourses of Gender in Taafe Fanga Sheila Petty Chapter 11: Reconsidering the Sembenian Project: Toward an Aesthetics of Change Aboubakar S. Sanogo Part Four: “Reel” Africanization Chapter 12: Video Booms and the Manifestations of “First” Cinema in Anglophone Africa N. Frank Ukadike Chapter 13: We Can’t Wait for Oliver Stone: Interview with Eddie Ugbomah N. Frank Ukadike

Autorenportrait

Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike teaches in the Department of Communication and the Program in African and African Diaspora Studies at Tulane University. He is the author of Black African Cinema and Questioning African Cinema: Conversations with Filmmakers and the editor of IRIS: A Journal of Theory on Image and Sound (Special Issue on African Cinema).