Appropriation Of Global Influences To The South African Film Production
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Appropriation Of Global Influences To The South African Film Production
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Author : Difrine Madara
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-14
Appropriation Of Global Influences To The South African Film Production written by Difrine Madara and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-14 with categories.
Global Nollywood
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Author : Matthias Krings
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2013-05-27
Global Nollywood written by Matthias Krings and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-27 with Performing Arts categories.
“Reveals in fascinating detail the wild popularity, controversies, and complaints provoked by this film form . . . shap[ing] the media landscape of Africa.” —Brian Larkin, Barnard College Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In fifteen lively essays, this volume traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the African continent and the rest of the world. Topics such as Nollywood as a theoretical construct, the development of a new, critical film language, and Nollywood’s transformation outside of Nigeria reveal the broader implications of this film form as it travels and develops. Highlighting controversies surrounding commodification, globalization, and the development of the film industry on a wider scale, Global Nollywood gives sustained attention to Nollywood as a uniquely African cultural production. “Offers original material with respect to the transnational presence of Nollywood.” ?Moradewun Adejunmobi, University of California, Davis “Unveils a fascinating variety of the ways in which Nollywood cinema is viewed and interpreted.” ?Research in African Literatures “Delightfully entertaining yet appropriately erudite. . . . A welcome addition to the fields of film, media, African, and cultural studies.” —Cinema Journal “Highly recommended.” ?Choice “[T]he cumulative effect of [these] studies is to provide invaluable information for those wishing to keep up with where African cinema is today.” ?Journal of African History “Global Nollywood represents the most up-to-date research on Nollywood as a transnational cultural practice and is a must-read for scholars and students of African screen media.” —African Studies Review “Ground-breaking. . . . It proves that, in spite of appearing to be a niche market, Nollywood . . . can no longer be excluded from the canon of African cinema in the field of film studies.” ?African Affairs
To Change Reels
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Author : Isabel Balseiro
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2003
To Change Reels written by Isabel Balseiro and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Culture in motion pictures categories.
With the end of apartheid, South African cinema is at a turning point in its history. But how can we speak of a national cinema when so far only an elite minority has participated in it? How can filmmakers draw upon the past as they take South Africa into a new artistic era? This collection offers an unprecedented look at a film industry that has excluded its country's black majority, in both representation and production-and that now must overcome collusion between racist ideology and film form. Until recently, filmmakers could work only within a culture that reluctantly took black South Africans into account. Therefore, to explore what South African cinema has been and could become, the authors do not limit their discussion to film production but approach cinema as a manifestation of cultural history. How has the purpose of cinema been viewed at different times in South Africa, by different governments and social groups? What is the relation between film and a sense of nationhood in South Africa? What has happened when whites aim to make "black" films? How has film been viewed in relation to the notion of leisure in South Africa? Such questions lead to a consideration not only of films made by South Africans in South Africa but also of an unfolding film culture within a series of stages that have yet to give rise to a national cinema.
The Cinema Of Apartheid
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Author : Keyan G. Tomaselli
language : en
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1988
The Cinema Of Apartheid written by Keyan G. Tomaselli and has been published by University of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Art categories.
How a nation looks at itself and shows itself to others is often revealed in its movies. But alongside this more flattering self-image, its movies may also reveal realities which it would rather conceal. This ambiguity is particularly true of South African films, which reflect the daily life and values of a society governed by extreme theories of racial separation. In The Cinema of Apartheid, Keyan Tomaselli analyzes the historical development and present state of South African cinema. Assuming no special knowledge on the part of the reader, the author provides fascinating descriptions of the movies, with penetrating comments on how they reflect South African realities. Tomaselli addresses all aspects of the film industry. While focusing on domestic productions, Tomaselli also discusses the many international filmmakers who use South Africa as a location. He begins with an account of how the government uses subsidies and censorship to determine which films are made. He explores the tensions between English-language and Afrikaans-language films, and between films made for whites and films made for blacks. Considerable attention is given to the media and the distribution system which shape the nature of film discourse in South Africa. Tomaselli takes his readers behind the scenes to examine the industry in is financial infrastructure, its marketing strategies and its work habits. He concludes with an appraisal of the independent cinema created on the margins of society and the obstacles facing South Africans who wish to create films with artistic and political integrity. He shows how social polarization has produced a great gap between what is and what might be, but holds out some hope for progress. The documentary section of The Cinema of Apartheid is the most comprehensive research on South African film ever to appear in print. A filmography lists all feature films made in South Africa between 1910 and 1985, together with numerous documentaries about South Africa, including films by exiles and non-South Africans. The bibliography cites outstanding writing from three continents. Tomaselli's approach, combining historical, political and aesthetic analysis, offers a unique view of a country in turmoil. The Cinema of Apartheid may prove to be not only the definitive book on South African cinema, but also a model study of an entertainment industry.
African Film Studies
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Author : Boukary Sawadogo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-09
African Film Studies written by Boukary Sawadogo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-09 with Performing Arts categories.
African Film Studies: An Introduction is an accessible and authoritative textbook on African cinema as a field of study. The book provides a succinct and comprehensive study of the history, aesthetics, and theory of sub-Saharan African cinematic productions that is grounded in the field of film studies instead of textual interpretations from other disciplines. Bringing African cinema out of the margins into the discipline of mainstream film studies and showcasing the diverse cinematic expressions of the continent, the book covers: Overview of African cinema(s): Questions our assumptions about the continent’s cinematic productions and defines the characteristics of African cinema across linguistic, geographic, and filmic divides. History of African and African-American cinema: Spans the history of film in Africa from colonial import and ‘appropriation of the gaze’ to the quest for individuality. It also establishes parallels in the historical development of black African cinema and African-American cinema. Aesthetics: Introduces new research on previously unexplored aesthetic dimensions such as cinematography, animation, and film music. Theoretical Approaches: Addresses a number of theoretical approaches and critical frameworks developed by scholars in the study of African cinema All chapters include case studies, suggestions for further reading, and screening lists to deepen the reader’s knowledge with no prior knowledge of African cinema required. Students, teachers, and general film enthusiasts would all benefit from this accessible and engaging book.
Nollywood In Glocal Perspective
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Author : Bala A. Musa
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-11-16
Nollywood In Glocal Perspective written by Bala A. Musa and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-16 with Performing Arts categories.
This book gives a panoramic view of the rise and growth of Nollywood, Nigeria’s movie and home video entertainment industry, into the second largest and most prolific movie-producing industry in the world. It offers an analysis of Nollywood’s influence as a local and global cultural force. Scholars from Africa, the African Diaspora and beyond examine the factors that have shaped Nollywood’s unique story-telling, production, and distribution system. The volume shows how internal and external economic, social, cultural and technological changes intersect to define Nollywood’s film-making and entertainment ethos. It is grounded in sound theoretical perspectives that help readers understand the texts and subtexts of the industry’s emergence, transformation, and impact. The range of subjects covered span Nollywood’s historical roots in Nigeria pre-colonial traveling/community theatre to colonial era film-making, and its contemporary spin-offs and inspired cousins across Africa and in Europe. It illuminates the interface of artistic, business, cultural and technological innovation and creativity at the heart of Africa’s local and global pop culture explosion.
African Film Cultures
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Author : Añuli Agina
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2017-08-21
African Film Cultures written by Añuli Agina and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-21 with Performing Arts categories.
The growing body of films in and around Africa, and the seemingly incongruent growth in African film scholarship, suggests the need for new perspectives, approaches and insights into film cultures in Africa. Although it is impossible to capture the entire diversity of existing African film cultures, this collection, which has resulted from African film conferences organized by the University of Westminster, United Kingdom, has recognized the significance and urgency of this task. The book offers a unique engagement with widened African film ‘cultures’ in the context of diverse peoples, histories, geographies, languages and changing film production cultures shaped by audiences and users at home and in the diaspora. The volume is a significant contribution to the processes of representing the self and other, as well as the emergence of alternative, non-official dialogues, circulation and consumption, including on social media. Students, researchers, film policy makers, film producers, distributors and anyone else with an interest in African screen media will find in the book useful and readable analyses of socio-political factors that affect and are shaped by African film.
Transnational Cinema
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Author : Steven Rawle
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-01-24
Transnational Cinema written by Steven Rawle and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-24 with Performing Arts categories.
This core teaching text provides a thorough overview of the recently emerged field of transnational film studies. Covering a range of approaches to analysing films about migrant, cross-cultural and cross-border experience, Steven Rawle demonstrates how film production has moved beyond clear national boundaries to become a product of border crossing finance and creative personnel. This comprehensive introduction brings together the key concepts and theories of transnational cinema, including genre, remakes, diasporic and exilic cinema, and the limits of thinking about cinema as a particularly national cultural artefact. It is an excellent course companion for undergraduate students of film, cinema, media and cultural studies studying transnational and global cinema, and provides both students and lovers of film alike with a strong grounding in this timely field of film studies.
The Western In The Global South
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Author : MaryEllen Higgins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-04-24
The Western In The Global South written by MaryEllen Higgins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-24 with Performing Arts categories.
The Western in the Global South investigates the Western film genre's impact, migrations, and reconfigurations in the Global South. Contributors explore how cosmopolitan directors have engaged with, appropriated, and subverted the tropes and conventions of Hollywood and Italian Westerns, and how Global South Westerns and Post-Westerns in particular address the inequities brought about by postcolonial patriarchy, globalization and neoliberalism. The book offers a wide range of historical engagements with the genre, from African, Caribbean, South and Southeast Asian, Central and South American, and transnational directors. The contributors employ interdisciplinary cultural studies approaches to cinema, integrating aesthetic considerations with historical, political, and gender studies readings of the international appropriations and U.S. re-appropriations of the Western genre.
The Music Sound
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Author : Nicolae Sfetcu
language : en
Publisher: Nicolae Sfetcu
Release Date : 2014-05-07
The Music Sound written by Nicolae Sfetcu and has been published by Nicolae Sfetcu this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-07 with Music categories.
A guide for music: compositions, events, forms, genres, groups, history, industry, instruments, language, live music, musicians, songs, musicology, techniques, terminology , theory, music video. Music is a human activity which involves structured and audible sounds, which is used for artistic or aesthetic, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes. The traditional or classical European aspects of music often listed are those elements given primacy in European-influenced classical music: melody, harmony, rhythm, tone color/timbre, and form. A more comprehensive list is given by stating the aspects of sound: pitch, timbre, loudness, and duration. Common terms used to discuss particular pieces include melody, which is a succession of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord, which is a simultaneity of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord progression, which is a succession of chords (simultaneity succession); harmony, which is the relationship between two or more pitches; counterpoint, which is the simultaneity and organization of different melodies; and rhythm, which is the organization of the durational aspects of music.