Until recently, the story of African film was marked by a series of
truncated histories: many outstanding films from earlier decades
were virtually inaccessible and thus often excluded from critical
accounts. However, various conservation projects since the turn of
the century have now begun to make many of these films available to
critics and audiences in a way that was unimaginable just a decade
ago. In this accessible and lively collection of essays, Lizelle
Bisschoff and David Murphy draw together the best scholarship on
the diverse and fragmented strands of African film history. Their
volume recovers over 30 'lost' African classic films from 1920-2010
in order to provide a more complex genealogy and begin to trace new
histories of African filmmaking: from 1920s Egyptian melodramas
through lost gems from apartheid South Africa to neglected works by
great Francophone directors, the full diversity of African cinema
will be revealed.
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