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Deux nouveaux livres en anglais sur les cinémas d’Afrique
octobre 2003 | | Cinéma/TV
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Deux livres essentiels : celui de notre collaboratrice Melissa Thackway et celui de l’universitaire américain Josef Gugler
African Film: Re-imagining a Continent
Josef Gugler
Professor of Sociology & Director of the Center for Contemporary African
Studies at the University of Connecticut. Previously he served as Director
of Sociological Research at Makerere Institute of Social Research, Uganda
[] Aimed primarily at students of African film & culture
[] Key films are introduced in the context of 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, to explorations of personal as well as political relations.
[] Films by Sembene, Wole Soyinka, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Cheik Oumar
Sissoko, Sarah Maldoror, Jamie Uys, Ramadan Suleman are among those examined
in detail
CONTENTS: Introduction: Africa re-imagined – I Recovering the African Past
Out of Africa (1985): Settler romance in nature paradise – Yaaba (1989):
Friendship in the village that time forgot – Keita! (1995): Transmitting
Sundjata to the next generation II FIGHTING COLONIALISM Sambizanga (1972):
The martyr, his family & the movement – Flame (1976): A twofold struggle
III THE STRUGGLE FOR MAJORITY RULE IN SOUTH AFRICA The Gods Must be Crazy
(1989): The world according to apartheid – A Dry White Season (1989): A
white awakening – Mapantsula (1988): Black resistance to white oppression –
Fools (1997): Dissolute, tormented & courageous IV BETRAYALS OF INDEPENDENCE
Kongi’s Harvest (1970): Traditional splendour & modern oppression – Xala
(1974): Impotence sexual, cultural, economic & political – Tableau ferraille
(1997): The rapid rise & abrupt fall of an honest politician – The Blue Eyes
of Yonta (1992): Was the Struggle in Vein? V THE EXPLOITED & NEGLECTED
PEASANTRY Finzan (1990): Gender conflict & village solidarity – Kasarmu Ce
(1991): Peasant Islam & urban corruption VI FROM SOCIETY & POLITICS TO THE
PERSONAL Kini & Adams (1997): The vagaries of adult friendship – La Vie est
belle (1987): Enjoy life! – Conclusions – Bibliography
No. Of Pages: 210
Format/Size: 234 X 205
Illustrations: 75 B&W Photographs
SUBJECT AREA: Film Studies
READERSHIP: Undergraduate/Student Reading List/Library
PRICE Paper GB Pounds 14.95 Paper
0-85255-561-X
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AFRICA SHOOTS BACK
Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African Film
Melissa Thackway
Melissa Thackway is a freelance researcher, translator and filmmaker based
in Paris.
[] Since independence, filmmakers from sub-Saharan francophone
Africa have used film to explore their identities and to depict realities
from an African point of view.
[] This has created ‘reverse angles’ or alternative perspectives that
challenge existing Western stereotypes of the continent.
[] The book focuses on the ways in which memory and history have
become central themes in the films, the directors drawing on both African
narrative traditions and dominant cinematic codes to examine issues of
identity and representation.
[] Will be of interest to students of postcolonial studies, African
studies and film studies
CONTENTS: Introduction – Development & evolutions: a brief history of
sub-Saharan francophone African film – Critical paradigms – Cultural
identity, representation & voice – Screen griots: orature & film – Memory,
history: other stories – Filming the immigrant experience: francophone
African cinema in Europe – On screen & behind the camera: African women &
film – Conclusion – Appendices – Bibliography – Filmography
No. of pages: 240 Format/Size:
234 x 156
Illustrations: B/W film stills
SUBJECT AREA: Film Studies Postcolonial Studies
READERSHIP: Postgraduate/Student Reading List/Library
ISBN: 0-85255-576-8 Paper GB POUNDS £14.95
———
Both books PUBLISHED BY JAMES CURREY in Europe and David Philip in S Africa
NB – new distributor:
Distributed by Marston Book Services Ltd, PO BOX 269, ABINGDON,
OXFORDSHIRE, OX14 4YN
01235 465522/24/25; [email protected]
Available from good bookshops or from:
AFRICA BOOK CENTRE Ltd., 38 KING STREET, LONDON WC2E 8JT- in the UK you
can call at local rate on 0845 458 1581 PLEASE PRINT IN BLOCK CAPITALS
[email protected] TEL +44 [0] 20 7240 6649 FAX +44 20 7497 0309
Josef Gugler
Professor of Sociology & Director of the Center for Contemporary African
Studies at the University of Connecticut. Previously he served as Director
of Sociological Research at Makerere Institute of Social Research, Uganda
[] Aimed primarily at students of African film & culture
[] Key films are introduced in the context of 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, to explorations of personal as well as political relations.
[] Films by Sembene, Wole Soyinka, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Cheik Oumar
Sissoko, Sarah Maldoror, Jamie Uys, Ramadan Suleman are among those examined
in detail
CONTENTS: Introduction: Africa re-imagined – I Recovering the African Past
Out of Africa (1985): Settler romance in nature paradise – Yaaba (1989):
Friendship in the village that time forgot – Keita! (1995): Transmitting
Sundjata to the next generation II FIGHTING COLONIALISM Sambizanga (1972):
The martyr, his family & the movement – Flame (1976): A twofold struggle
III THE STRUGGLE FOR MAJORITY RULE IN SOUTH AFRICA The Gods Must be Crazy
(1989): The world according to apartheid – A Dry White Season (1989): A
white awakening – Mapantsula (1988): Black resistance to white oppression –
Fools (1997): Dissolute, tormented & courageous IV BETRAYALS OF INDEPENDENCE
Kongi’s Harvest (1970): Traditional splendour & modern oppression – Xala
(1974): Impotence sexual, cultural, economic & political – Tableau ferraille
(1997): The rapid rise & abrupt fall of an honest politician – The Blue Eyes
of Yonta (1992): Was the Struggle in Vein? V THE EXPLOITED & NEGLECTED
PEASANTRY Finzan (1990): Gender conflict & village solidarity – Kasarmu Ce
(1991): Peasant Islam & urban corruption VI FROM SOCIETY & POLITICS TO THE
PERSONAL Kini & Adams (1997): The vagaries of adult friendship – La Vie est
belle (1987): Enjoy life! – Conclusions – Bibliography
No. Of Pages: 210
Format/Size: 234 X 205
Illustrations: 75 B&W Photographs
SUBJECT AREA: Film Studies
READERSHIP: Undergraduate/Student Reading List/Library
PRICE Paper GB Pounds 14.95 Paper
0-85255-561-X
========
AFRICA SHOOTS BACK
Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African Film
Melissa Thackway
Melissa Thackway is a freelance researcher, translator and filmmaker based
in Paris.
[] Since independence, filmmakers from sub-Saharan francophone
Africa have used film to explore their identities and to depict realities
from an African point of view.
[] This has created ‘reverse angles’ or alternative perspectives that
challenge existing Western stereotypes of the continent.
[] The book focuses on the ways in which memory and history have
become central themes in the films, the directors drawing on both African
narrative traditions and dominant cinematic codes to examine issues of
identity and representation.
[] Will be of interest to students of postcolonial studies, African
studies and film studies
CONTENTS: Introduction – Development & evolutions: a brief history of
sub-Saharan francophone African film – Critical paradigms – Cultural
identity, representation & voice – Screen griots: orature & film – Memory,
history: other stories – Filming the immigrant experience: francophone
African cinema in Europe – On screen & behind the camera: African women &
film – Conclusion – Appendices – Bibliography – Filmography
No. of pages: 240 Format/Size:
234 x 156
Illustrations: B/W film stills
SUBJECT AREA: Film Studies Postcolonial Studies
READERSHIP: Postgraduate/Student Reading List/Library
ISBN: 0-85255-576-8 Paper GB POUNDS £14.95
———
Both books PUBLISHED BY JAMES CURREY in Europe and David Philip in S Africa
NB – new distributor:
Distributed by Marston Book Services Ltd, PO BOX 269, ABINGDON,
OXFORDSHIRE, OX14 4YN
01235 465522/24/25; [email protected]
Available from good bookshops or from:
AFRICA BOOK CENTRE Ltd., 38 KING STREET, LONDON WC2E 8JT- in the UK you
can call at local rate on 0845 458 1581 PLEASE PRINT IN BLOCK CAPITALS
[email protected] TEL +44 [0] 20 7240 6649 FAX +44 20 7497 0309
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