Francophone African cinema
Subtitle: history, culture, politics and theory
By: K. Martial Frindethie.
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780786439621
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Africa, French-speaking; Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Africa, French-speaking; Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Africa, French-speaking; Culture conflict in motion pictures; Africa -- In motion pictures
Description: "This book offers a transnational and interdisciplinary analysis of 16 Francophone African films studied in the context of transnational conversations between African filmmakers and conventional theorists. It examines black French filmmakers' treatments of a number of cross-cultural themes, including intercontinental encounters and reciprocity, ideology and subjective freedom, governance and moral responsibility, sexuality and social order, and globalization"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: engaging African cinema; title: "There is no conversation here, my boy": spectral returns of Fanon and Hegel in Bassek Ba Kobhio's The great white man of Lambarene; title: The language you govern in: the rise and fall of the African despot in Balufu Bakupa Kanyinda's Le damier: papa national oye and Cheick Oumar Sissoko's Guimba the tyrant; title: Nostalgic memories and nomadic spirits: Merzak Allouache's Bab-el-oued and Karim Dridi's Bye-bye; title: Allegorizing the quest for autonomy: Cheick Oumar Sissoko's Finzan and Amadou Seck's Saaraba; title: Writing the sexual order: Ousmane Sembåne's Faat Kiné and Ngangura Mweze's La vie est belle; title: Cogito must have gone crazy: construction and/as deconstruction of masculinity in Nouri Bouzid's Bent familia and Mufida Tlatli's The silences of the palace; title: Keita: the heritage of the griot: economic, social, and cultural organization of ancient Africa; title: Crisis in French Africa as hexagonal possibility: globalization la francìaise; title: "There is no trade going on there": tales from The killing fields of the Congo; title: Conclusion.