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African Film - Re-Imagining a Continent (Paperback)
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The directors and films studied here set out to re-image Africa -
and offer Western viewers the opportunity to re-imagine the
continent and its people. Two additional, very successful films on
Africa, one from Hollywood, the other from apartheid South Africa,
serve to highlight African directors' altogether different
perspectives. The interpretation considers the financial and
technical difficulties of African film production, the intended
audiences, the constraints on distribution, and critical reception.
The films featured cover a wide range of topics, from new
perspectives on Africa prior to the intrusion of the West, to the
struggle against colonialism and white minority rule, to
post-colonial issues of authoritarian rule, neo-colonialism,
corruption, inequality and the condition of the peasantry, with the
position of women a recurrent theme. The discussions are
accompanied by reproductions of posters, of photos of the directors
during the shooting, and film frames illustrating key elements in
the analysis. Introductions to the thematic topics provide the
historical, cultural, political, and economic context of the films.
Four of the films are based on novels, two more on a play or an
epic, and the transformation involved in bringing the written page,
or the griot's recitation, to the screen receives special
attention. Throughout, the discussion extends to other African
films and literary works. North America: Indiana U Press
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