African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara
"African Filmmaking is very much a film studies narrative... For classes that cover this terrain, it is supremely useful for students. Not only does Armes canvass enormous territory, succinctly and in elegant prose, but he has also made a judicious selection of directors and films. Most important, he takes an approach that brings together North Africa and Francophone West and Central Africa to draw out insights that might otherwise be blurred..." —AfrArts"... Armes' book covers a broad range of film—making, from the experimental work of Jean Pierre Bekolo (Cameroon) to the fiction of Nabil Ayouch (Morocco), and is essential reading for anyone with an interest in African film." —Sight & Sound"African Filmmaking is very much a film studies narrative... For classes that cover this terrain, it is supremely useful for students.[1] Not only does Armes canvass enormous territory, succinctly and in elegant prose, but he has also made a judicious selection of directors and films. Most important, he takes an approach that brings together North Africa and Francophone West and Central Africa to draw out insights that might otherwise be blurred.... —H—AfrArts" —Net, Feb. 2008"The strength of Armes's book is its concise and fairly coherent presentation of most of the major issues that must be considered when studying African cinema." —DAYNA OSCHERWITZ, SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES, 39.2 Summer 2008"... the book addresses the sociopolitical context, filmmaking in Africa prior to the mid—1960s, the involvement of African and French governments, and matters of national/cultural identity and globalization." —Communication Booknotes Quarterly"... This conscientious, scholarly work exists because attention must be paid, not because the world is about to experience a surge of films from Africa.... Highly recommended. Upper—division undergraduates through faculty." —Choice