Cinema and Development in West Africa: Film as a Vehicle for Liberation

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193 abbas, ferhat, 106 academie des sciences d’outre-mer, 24 aCCt. See agence de coopération culturelle et technique (aCCt) activists, 11–12; cultural, 9, 16, 18, 21–22, 70–71, 78, 81, 94, 97, 141, 164; political, 142 actors: of color, 29, 53; real people as, 82, 83, 104, 115–16, 118–19, 121, 140–41 adorno, Theodor, 11, 45, 71–72, 113 aesthetic, film: anticolonial, 102–10; colonial , 71; emerging, 3, 6, 8–9, 11, 12–13, 96, 116; materialist, 10, 72, 148–49; postcolonial, 97–127; realist, 111–13; revolutionary, 119–23, 144; technology and, 67; West african filmmakers’ development of, 86, 142, 148–49, 160, 163–64. See also cinema; cinema, West african; filmmakers; filmmakers , early West african; films; films, West african afram. See afro-american films inc. (afram) africa and africans, 2–4, 5, 56, 132, 168n46; cinema industrial complex’s service to, 19, 70, 96, 147–57, 159, 161, 164; negro-african civilization, 87, 175n48; rural, 78, 82; sub-saharan, 2, 7. See also audiences, african; autochthonous populations; culture, african; madagascar; tunisia; West africa; Zimbabwe africa and africans, representations of, 99, 103–104, 106–107, 111–13, 115–16, 118–19; colonialist, 3, 11, 97; daily life, 97, 124, 164; filmic, 19, 41, 45–46, 56, 63, 160; hegemonic, 50–51, 127; literary , 75; racist, 45–48, 86, 98; Western, 15, 17. See also actors: real people as; image-africa; regime of representation , West african; representation, in film Afrique-sur-Seine (film, vieyra and sarr), 1, 82, 157, 174n33; as docu-fiction, 83, 96, 106–107, 116; GaC as producer of, 110, 162, 174n33; as guerrilla cinema, 144, 145; political themes, 84, 120 afro-american films inc. (afram), 153 agence de coopération culturelle et technique (aCCt), 7, 19, 150–52, 157, 159, 161, 180n65 alassane, mustapha, 111 algeria: film festivals in, 147; resistance movement in, 34, 35, 87–88, 133 “algiers Charter on african Cinema, 1975, The,” 2–3, 155–57, 166n22 althusser, louis, 15 american motion picture export Company-africa (ampeCa), 152–53 anticolonialism, 31, 73, 93; cinema industrial complex and, 74–89, 107–108. See also film politics, West african: anticolonial armes, roy, 3 art, cinema as, 4, 7–10, 12, 19, 71–72, 88, 127 ashcroft, Bill, 78–79 Aube de l’Islam (film, Egypt), 35 audiences: cultural perceptions brought by, 45–46, 127; effects of film on, 11, 18; engagement with creative work, 76, 135, 143–44, 163; filmmakers’ interaction with, 28, 49, 55–62, 72; french, 50, 108; post-film discussions , 155, 180n78; process of watching films, 25, 28–29, 32; raising consciousness of, 144–45; soviet, 90, 113 audiences, african, 42, 52, 94; french filmmaking targeted at, 32–33; images of africa seen by, 22, 56, 57–59, 114, 119, 129; increasing numbers, 24, 26–27, index 194 | Index 31, 81, 84; postcolonial identities of, 86, 98; reception of colonial films, 48–49; restrictions on, 25–26, 27, 30, 37–38, 161. See also autochthonous populations; youth audiences, images of africa seen by extraafrican : documentaries on, 56; french sensitivities to, 17, 27, 33, 78, 129; racist, 45–48, 59 auteurs, 11, 12, 139, 143. See also filmmakers , early West african autochthonous populations: adapting films to, 22, 35, 63; images of africa shown to, 46–47, 81, 97, 99, 123; imperial degradation of, 88, 121; participation in film productions, 67, 69, 75; traditions of, 93, 94; writers among, 79. See also africa and africans; audiences, african Bakari, imruh, 21, 111 Bakhtin, mikhail m., 68, 78, 79, 89 Barry, aminata, 17 Barthes, roland, 13 Bassori, timité, and establishment of fepaCi, 146–47 Baudry, Jean-louis, 10–11, 12 Bazin, andré, 51, 55, 78, 99 Belton, John, 62, 67 Benin: film industry in, 111, 154 Benjamin, Walter, 16, 71 Bernstein, J. m., 71 Beti, mongo (eza Boto), novels by, 79, 80, 84 Bhabha, Homi, 126 Blé en herbe, Le (film), banning of, 40 Bons pères (Catholic organization), 40 Boto, eza (mongo Beti). See Beti, mongo (eza Boto), novels by Boulanger, pierre, 46, 48, 49 Bourdieu, pierre, 6 Bourgi, abdou Karim, 30 Bouruet-aubertot, m., 66, 67 Brecht, Berthold, 16 Britain. See Great Britain, film industry Browne, nick, study of Stagecoach, 25, 28–29, 32 Bureau du cinéma: control over West african cinema, 130, 132, 140, 161; funding from, 136–38, 139; reestablishment of, 131, 134. See also ministère de la coopération et l’assistance technique Burke, timothy, 46, 58 Burkina faso. See Upper volta Cai...