Postnationalist African cinemas
By: Alexie Tcheuyap
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Manchester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780719083358; 9780719083365
Subjects: Motion pictures; Nationalism; Nationalism in motion pictures
Description: Postnationalist African Cinemas convincingly interrogates the ways in which African narratives locate postcolonial identities and forms beyond essentially nationalist frameworks. It investigates how the emergence of new genres, discourses and representations, all unrelated to an overtly nationalist project, influences the formal choices made by contemporary directors. By foregrounding the narrative, generic, discursive, representational and aesthetic structures of films, this book shows how directors are beginning to regard film as a popular form of entertainment rather than political praxis. (Barnes & Noble).
Notes: Filmography: p. 255-258.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-255) and index.