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ESSAI | Novembre 2003
African Film
Josef Gugler
Pays concerné : Grande-Bretagne
Edition : James Currey, Indiana University Press, David Philip
Pays d’édition : Afrique du Sud
ISBN : 0-85255-561-X
Pages: 202
Parution : 24 Novembre 2003

Français

Re-imagine a Continent.

Josef Gugler, African Film : Re-Imagining a Continent, 216 pages, 63 illustrations, 2 maps, 1 table. Paper $ 24.95, cloth $ 60.

Indiana University Press, 601 N. Morton Street, Bloomington, IN 47404-3797.

Josef Gugler invites his readers to « re-imagine Africa » by examining fifteen key films made by African directors and contrasting them with two very successful films on Africa, one from Hollywood, the other from apartheid South Africa. The films serve to highlight African directors’ altogether different perspectives and introduce the primary concerns and issues that they address, from the recovery of African history to the struggle for majority rule in South Africa, from the fight against colonialism to the betrayals of independence and the neglect of the peasantry, with the position of women a recurrent theme.

English

Re-imagine a Continent.

Josef Gugler, African Film : Re-Imagining a Continent, 216 pages, 63 illustrations, 2 maps, 1 table. Paper $ 24.95, cloth $ 60.

Indiana University Press, 601 N. Morton Street, Bloomington, IN 47404-3797.

Josef Gugler invites his readers to « re-imagine Africa » by examining fifteen key films made by African directors and contrasting them with two very successful films on Africa, one from Hollywood, the other from apartheid South Africa. The films serve to highlight African directors’ altogether different perspectives and introduce the primary concerns and issues that they address, from the recovery of African history to the struggle for majority rule in South Africa, from the fight against colonialism to the betrayals of independence and the neglect of the peasantry, with the position of women a recurrent theme.
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