Cinema And Development In West Africa
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Cinema And Development In West Africa
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Author : James E. Genova
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-25
Cinema And Development In West Africa written by James E. Genova 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 2013-09-25 with Performing Arts categories.
“Illuminates the enduring importance of political and economic dynamics not yet fully explored in the study of African cinema.” —Africa Cinema and Development in West Africa shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strategies of nation building during the transition from French rule to the early postcolonial period. James E. Genova sees the construction of African identities and economic development as the major themes in the political literature and cultural production of the time. Focusing on film both as industry and aesthetic genre, he demonstrates its unique place in economic development and provides a comprehensive history of filmmaking in the region during the transition from colonies to sovereign states.
Cinema And Development In West Africa
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Author : James Genova
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Cinema And Development In West Africa written by James Genova and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
The paper examines the struggle for decolonization in West Africa through the critical lense of the cinema industrial complex. One of the pioneers of African cinema and also a leading anti-colonial cultural activist Paulin Soumanou Vieyra insisted that film should be regarded as a crucial terrain in the fight to end colonial rule as well as a central vehicle in the post-colonial economic and cultural regeneration of Africa's societies. He highlighted the cinema's dual nature as art and industry as providing a unique mix of elements that could be utilized to achieve full sovereignty from foreign rule as well as a pathway for development that was not resource-dependent. Drawn from my forthcoming book of the same title (Indiana, 2013), the paper argues that the representational and materialist dimensions to the cinema industrial complex constituted important modalities of colonial rule that were contested by agents like Vieyra, Ousmane Sembene, Med Hondo, and others in the transition from imperial control to political sovereignty. I argue that this study illuminates some of the possibilities inherent within the project of using film as a means of decolonization while also revealing important structural constraints that limited the potential for Africa's post-colonial cultural and economic development.
Culture And Development In Africa
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Author : Stephen H. Arnold
language : en
Publisher: Trenton, N.J. : African World Press
Release Date : 1990
Culture And Development In Africa written by Stephen H. Arnold and has been published by Trenton, N.J. : African World Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Business & Economics categories.
African Film Studies
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Author : Boukary Sawadogo
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-12-15
African Film Studies written by Boukary Sawadogo and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-15 with Performing Arts categories.
African Film Studies is an accessible and engaging introduction to African cinemas, showcasing the diverse cinematic expressions across the continent. Bringing African cinemas out of the margins and into mainstream film studies, the book provides a succinct overview of the history, aesthetics, and theory of sub-Saharan African cinematic productions. Updated throughout, this new edition includes new chapters on Nollywood, Ethiopian cinema, Streaming, and the rise of televisual series, which serve to complement the book’s main themes: Overview of African cinema(s): Questions assumptions and defines the characteristics of African cinemas across linguistic, geographic, and filmic divides History of African cinemas: Spans the history of film in Africa from colonial import and ‘appropriation of the gaze’, the rise of Nollywood and local TV series to streaming, as well as building connections with the development of African American cinema Aesthetics: Introduces new research on previously under-explored 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 cinemas Traditions and practices in African screen media: Features Ethiopian cinema, Nollywood, Local Televisual Series in Burkina Faso and South Africa, and the Streaming rush for Africa All chapters include case studies, suggestions for further reading, and screening lists to deepen the reader’s knowledge, with no prior knowledge of African cinemas required. Students, teachers, and general film enthusiasts would all benefit from this accessible and engaging book.
Tropical Dream Palaces
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Author : Odile Goerg
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-01
Tropical Dream Palaces written by Odile Goerg and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-01 with History categories.
Many studies focus on film in Africa. Few, however, study cinema as a leisure activity: one that has influenced several generations and opened up spaces to dream, discuss or contest. Movie theatres offered a break from the daily routine, as places of escape and of education. Cinema was also potentially subversive, offering an alternative to colonial discourse. Tropical Dream Palaces seeks to trace this history in a West African context: of broadening horizons on the one hand, and of censorship and control on the other. It fills a historiographic void, following cinema's arrival in the region in the early twentieth century up until the Independence era, and also looking further afield to Central Africa and its different models. Goerg addresses questions of film distribution in colonial times; of screening venues, their implantation, spread and different categories; while also focusing on audiences, their gender or age; the acquisition of a film culture; and the impact of screening foreign images. Her book draws on extremely varied sources to paint a broad picture of this cinematographic landscape: archives, the accounts of African and European spectators or administrators, novels, autobiographies, the local press, interviews and iconography.
Black African Cinema
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Author : Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-09-01
Black African Cinema written by Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-01 with Performing Arts categories.
From the proselytizing lantern slides of early Christian missionaries to contemporary films that look at Africa through an African lens, N. Frank Ukadike explores the development of black African cinema. He examines the impact of culture and history, and of technology and co-production, on filmmaking throughout Africa. Every aspect of African contact with and contribution to cinematic practices receives attention: British colonial cinema; the thematic and stylistic diversity of the pioneering "francophone" films; the effects of television on the motion picture industry; and patterns of television documentary filmmaking in "anglophone" regions. Ukadike gives special attention to the growth of independent production in Ghana and Nigeria, the unique Yoruba theater-film tradition, and the militant liberationist tendencies of "lusophone" filmmakers. He offers a lucid discussion of oral tradition as a creative matrix and the relationship between cinema and other forms of popular culture. And, by contrasting "new" African films with those based on the traditional paradigm, he explores the trends emerging from the eighties and nineties. Clearly written and accessible to specialist and general reader alike, Black African Cinema's analysis of key films and issues—the most comprehensive in English—is unique. The book's pan-Africanist vision heralds important new strategies for appraising a cinema that increasingly attracts the attention of film students and Africanists.
The Development And Growth Of The Film Industry In Nigeria
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Author : Alfred E. Opubor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
The Development And Growth Of The Film Industry In Nigeria written by Alfred E. Opubor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Motion picture industry categories.
Making New People
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Author : James Genova
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2022-11-01
Making New People written by James Genova and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-01 with History categories.
On August 4, 1983, Captain Thomas Sankara led a coalition of radical military officers, communist activists, labor leaders, and militant students to overtake the government of the Republic of Upper Volta. Almost immediately following the coup’s success, the small West African country—renamed Burkina Faso, or Land of the Dignified People—gained international attention as it charted a new path toward social, economic, cultural, and political development based on its people’s needs rather than external pressures and Cold War politics. James E. Genova’s Making New People: Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983–1987 recounts in detail the revolutionary government’s rise and fall, demonstrating how it embodied the critical transition period in modern African history between the era of decolonization and the dawning of neoliberal capitalism. It also uncovers one of the revolution’s most enduring and significant aspects: its promotion of film as a vehicle for raising the people’s consciousness, inspiring their efforts at social transformation, and articulating a new self-generated image of Africa and Africans. Foregrounding film and drawing evocative connections between Sankara’s political philosophy and Frantz Fanon, Making New People provides a deeply nuanced explanation for the revolution’s lasting influence throughout Africa and the world.
Instructional Cinema And African Audiences In Colonial Kenya 1926 1963
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Author : Samson Kaunga Ndanyi
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-03-14
Instructional Cinema And African Audiences In Colonial Kenya 1926 1963 written by Samson Kaunga Ndanyi and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-14 with History categories.
In Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926–1963, the author argues against the colonial logic instigating that films made for African audiences in Kenya influenced them to embrace certain elements of western civilization but Africans had nothing to offer in return. The author frames this logic as unidirectional approach purporting that Africans were passive recipients of colonial programs. Contrary to this understanding, the author insists that African viewers were active participants in the discourse of cinema in Kenya. Employing unorthodox means to protest mediocre films devoid of basic elements of film production, African spectators forced the colonial government to reconsider the way it produced films. The author frames the reconsideration as bidirectional approach. Instructional cinema first emerged as a tool to “educate” and “modernize” Africans, but it transformed into a contestable space of cultural and political power, a space that both sides appropriated to negotiate power and actualize their abstract ideas.
African Cinema Manifesto And Practice For Cultural Decolonization
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Author : Michael T. Martin
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-08
African Cinema Manifesto And Practice For Cultural Decolonization written by Michael T. Martin 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 2023-08-08 with Art categories.
Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film. Volume One of this landmark series on African cinema draws together foundational scholarship on its history and evolution. Beginning with the ideological project of colonial film to legitimize the economic exploitation and cultural hegemony of the African continent during imperial rule to its counter-historical formation and theorization. It comprises essays by film scholars and filmmakers alike, among them Roy Armes, Med Hondo, Fèrid Boughedir, Haile Gerima, Oliver Barlet, Teshome Gabriel, and David Murphy, including three distinct dossiers: a timeline of key dates in the history of African cinema; a comprehensive chronicle and account of the contributions by African women in cinema; and a homage and overview of Ousmane Sembène, the "Father" of African cinema.