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Africa shoots back : alternative perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African film
- Title
- Africa shoots back : alternative perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African film / Melissa Thackway.
- Author
- Thackway, Melissa.
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; Oxford : James Currey ; Cape Town : David Philip, 2003.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | MFL 04-819 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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- Description
- x, 230 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Alternative perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African film
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published: Oxford : J. Currey, 2003.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-217), filmography (p. 218-223), and index.
- Contents
- Development & evolutions -- A brief history of Sub-Saharan Francophone African film -- Critical paradigms -- The problematic legacy of eurocentrism -- Postmodernism or postcoloniality? -- Towards new paradigms -- Cultural identity, representation & voice -- Representing Africa: the western imagination -- Alternative perspectives, or reassessing identity through film -- Screen griots; orature & film -- Living traditions: the cultural context -- The stylistic & structural influences of orature on film -- Memory, history: other stories -- The 'colonial confontation' genre -- Memory-history films: Afrique je te plumerai; Asientos; Allah Tantou; Fad'jal -- Filming the immigrant experience: Francophone African cinema in Europe -- Setting a precedent: Afrique sur seine -- The myth of Europe: illusions & delusions; integration or return? -- Interracial relationships & immigrant communities -- African women & film: on screen and behind camera -- Directing the female gaze: Safi Faye; Anne Laure Folly; Fanta R. Nacro -- 'Womanist' films.
- Call Number
- ̈
- ISBN
- 0253343496 (alk. paper)
- 0253216427 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0852555776 (James Currey cloth)
- 0852555768 (James Currey paper)
- LCCN
- 2003014793
- OCLC
- 52520246
- Author
- Thackway, Melissa.
- Title
- Africa shoots back : alternative perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African film / Melissa Thackway.
- Imprint
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; Oxford : James Currey ; Cape Town : David Philip, 2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-217), filmography (p. 218-223), and index.
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- Research Call Number
- ̈Sc D 04-466MFL 04-819