African filmmaking : north and south of the Sahara
Roy Armes (Author)
"African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara is the first comprehensive study in English linking filmmaking in the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) with that in francophone West Africa and examining the factors (including Islam and the involvement of African and French governments) which have shaped post-independence production. The main focus is the development over forty years of two main traditions of African filmmaking: a social realist strand examining the nature of postcolonial society and a more experimental approach where emphasis is placed on new stylistic patterns able to embrace history, myth, and magic. The work of younger filmmakers born since independence is examined in light of these two traditions. Book jacket."--Jacket
History
1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) : illustrations
9781280553950, 9780253348531, 9780253218988, 1280553952, 0253348536, 0253218985
1417085878
PART I. Context. Beginnings
African initiatives
The French connection. PART II. Confronting reality. Liberation and postcolonial society
Individual struggle. PART III. New identities. Experimental narratives
Exemplary tales. PART IV. The new Millennium. The post-independence generation
Mahamat Saleh Haroun (Chad)
Dani Kouyate (Burkina Faso)
Raja Amari (Tunisia)
Faouzi Bensaidi (Morocco)
Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritania)
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2024
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