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  • Contemporary African Cinema

    by Olivier Barlet ...
    Series series African Humanities and the Arts
    African and notably sub-Saharan African film’s relative eclipse on the international scene in the early twenty-first century does not transcend the growth within the African genre. This time period has seen African cinema forging a new relationship with the real and implementing new aesthetic strategies, as well as the emergence of a post-colonial popular cinema.Drawing on more than 1,500 articles ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Raoul Peck

    Power, Politics, and the Cinematic Imagination

    by Martin Munro, Tama Hamilton-Wray, Myriam J. A. Chancy, Rachel Gabara, Olivier Barlet, John P. Walsh, Jane Bryce, Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, Joëlle Vitiello ...
    This comprehensive collection of essays dedicated to the work of filmmaker Raoul Peck is the first of its kind. The essays, interview, and keynote addresses collected in Raoul Peck: Power, Politics, and the Cinematic Imagination focus on the ways in which power and politics traverse the work of Peck and are central to his cinematic vision. At the heart of this project is the wish to gather diverse ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization

    Volume 1: Colonial Antecedents, Constituents, Theory, and Articulations

    by Michael T. Martin, Gaston Jean-Marie Kaboré, Roy Armes, James E. Genova, Femi Okiremuete Shaka, James Burns, Tom Rice0, Odile Goerg1, Med Hondo2, Férid Boughedir3, Haile Gerima4, Sada Niang5, Monique Mbeka Phoba6, Olivier Barlet7, Clyde R. Taylor8, Alexie Tcheuyap9, Esiaba Irobi0, Stephen A. Zacks1, Teshome H. Gabriel2, David Murphy3, Jude Akudinobi4, Maureen N. Eke5, Arnold Shepperson6, Keyan G. Tomaselli7, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra8, Boukary Sawadogo9, Claude Forest0, Samba Gadjigo1, Beti Ellerson2 ...
    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film.Volume One of this landmark series on African cinema draws together foundational scholarship on its history and evolution. Beginning with the ideological project of colonial film to legitimize the economic ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization

    Volume 2: FESPACO—Formation, Evolution, Challenges

    by Michael T. Martin, Gaston Jean-Marie Kaboré, Ardiouma Soma, Lindiwe Dovey, Manthia Diawara, Beti Ellerson, Sambolgo Bangre0, Dorothee Wenner1, M. Africanus Aveh2, Mahir Saul3, Mbye Cham4, Ousmane Sembene5, Wole Soyinka6, Aboubakar Sanogo7, Teresa Hoefert de Turegano8, Claire Andrade-Watkins9, Olivier Barlet0, Rod Stoneman1, Férid Boughedir2, Claire Diao3, Michel Amarger4, Mustapha Ouedgraogo5, Colin Dupré6, Sheila Petty7, Imruh Bakari8, June Givanni9, Rémi Abega0 ...
    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film.Volume Two of this landmark series on African cinema is devoted to the decolonizing mediation of the Pan African Film & Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), the most important, inclusive, and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    Music, Film, and Charitable Imperialism in the East of Congo

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    Since 1997, the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has taken more than 6 million lives and shapes the daily existence of the nation's residents. While the DRC is often portrayed in international media as an unproductive failed state, the Congolese have turned increasingly to art-making to express their experience to external eyes. Author Chérie Rivers Ndaliko argues that ... Read more

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  • African Film and Literature

    Adapting Violence to the Screen

    by Lindiwe Dovey ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Analyzing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking-one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique of physical and psychological violence. Against a detailed history of the medium's savage introduction and exploitation by ... Read more

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  • New African Cinema

    by Valérie K. Orlando ...
    Series series Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
    New African Cinema examines the pressing social, cultural, economic, and historical issues explored by African filmmakers from the early post-colonial years into the new millennium. Offering an overview of the development of postcolonial African cinema since the 1960s, Valérie K. Orlando highlights the variations in content and themes that reflect the socio-cultural and political environments of ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Symbolic Narratives/African Cinema

    Audiences, Theory and the Moving Image

    In the conference Africa and the History of Cinematic Ideas held in London in 1995, film-makers, cultural theorists and critics gathered to debate a range of issues. Views were exchanged on such topics as imperialism, and the problems of distribution. ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture

    Edited by Grace A Musila ...
    This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, producers, platforms, and the material, affective and discursive resources they circulate – are influential in shaping African realities. Collectively, the chapters assembled in ... Read more

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  • Postcolonial African Writers

    A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

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  • A History of African Popular Culture

    by Karin Barber ...
    Series Book 11 - New Approaches to African History
    Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns ... Read more

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  • In Senghor's Shadow

    Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960–1995

    by Elizabeth Harney, Nicholas Thomas ...
    Series series Objects/Histories
    In Senghor’s Shadow is a unique study of modern art in postindependence Senegal. Elizabeth Harney examines the art that flourished during the administration of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegal’s first president, and in the decades since he stepped down in 1980. As a major philosopher and poet of Negritude, Senghor envisioned an active and revolutionary role for modern artists, and he created a well ... Read more

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