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University of Minnesota Press
- Questioning African Cinema: Conversations With Filmmakers
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
summary
Diverse in their art, paradoxically more celebrated abroad than they are at home, African filmmakers eke out their visions against a backdrop of complex historical, social, economic, and political practices. The richness of their accomplishments emerges with compelling clarity in this book, in which African filmmakers speak candidly about their work. Featuring interviews with key personalities from twelve nations, Questioning African Cinema provides the most extensive, comprehensive account ever given of the origins, practice, and implications of filmmaking in Africa. Speaking with pioneers Med Hondo, Souleymane Cissé, and Kwaw Ansah; renowned feature filmmakers Djibril Mambéty, Haile Gerima, and Safi Faye; and award-winning younger filmmakers Idrissa Ouedraogo, Cheick Oumar Sissoko, and Jean-Pierre Bekolo, N. Frank Ukadike identifies trends and individual practices even as he surveys the evolution of African cinema and addresses the politics and problems of seeing Africa through an African lens. Situating the unique achievement of each filmmaker within the geographic, historical, social, and political context of African cinema, he also explores questions about acting, distribution and exhibition, history, theory and criticism, video-based television production, and television’s relationship to independent film.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. xvii-xxii
- Part I. The Tradition: Pioneering, Invention, and Intervention
- Kwaw Ansah (Ghana)
- pp. 3-18
- Souleymane Cissé (Mali)
- pp. 19-28
- Safi Faye (Senegal)
- pp. 29-40
- Gadalla Gubara (Sudan)
- pp. 41-56
- Med Hondo (Mauritania)
- pp. 57-72
- Lionel Ngakane (South Africa)
- pp. 73-84
- Chief Eddie Ugbomah (Nigeria)
- pp. 85-98
- Part II. Vision and Trends
- Flora Gomes (Guinea-Bissau)
- pp. 101-108
- Gaston Kaboré (Burkina Faso)
- pp. 109-120
- Djibril Diop Mambety (Senegal)
- pp. 121-132
- Ngangura Mweze (Congo)
- pp. 133-150
- Idrissa Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso)
- pp. 151-160
- Brendan Shehu (Nigeria)
- pp. 161-180
- Cheick Oumar Sissoko (Mali)
- pp. 181-200
- Part III. Boundaries and Trajectories
- King Ampaw (Ghana)
- pp. 203-216
- Jean-Pierre Bekolo (Cameroon)
- pp. 217-238
- Salem Mekuria (Ethiopia)
- pp. 239-252
- Haile Gerima (Ethiopia)
- pp. 253-280
- Ramadan Suleman (South Africa)
- pp. 281-300
- Jean-Marie Teno (Cameroon)
- pp. 301-316
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816693993
Related ISBN(s)
9780816640058
MARC Record
OCLC
614925508
Pages
344
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No