African Documentary Cinema

Author : Keyan Tomaselli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317928409

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The Cinema of Apartheid by Keyan Tomaselli Pdf

This study analyses the historical development of South African cinema up to he book's original publication in 1988. It describes the films and comments on their relationship to South African realities, addressing all aspects of the industry, focusing on domestic production, but also discussing international film companies who use South Africa as a location. It explores tensions between English-language and Afrikaans-language films, and between films made for blacks and films made for whites. Going behind the scenes the author looks at the financial infrastructure, the marketing strategies, and the works habits of the film industry. He concludes with a discussion of independent filmmaking, the obstacles facing South Africans who want to make films with artistic and political integrity, and the possibilities of progress in the future. Includes comprehensive bibliography and filmography listing all feature films made in South Africa between 1910 and 1985 together with documentary films by South Africans, non-South Africans, and exiles about the country.

Author : Mette Hjort,Eva Jørholt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780253039446

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African Cinema and Human Rights by Mette Hjort,Eva Jørholt Pdf

Essays and case studies exploring how filmmaking can play a role in promoting social and economic justice. Bringing theory and practice together, African Cinema and Human Rights argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the causes of justice and fairness. The contributors to this volume identify three key ways in which film can achieve these goals: Documenting human rights abuses and thereby supporting the claims of victims and goals of truth and reconciliation within larger communities Legitimating, and consequently solidifying, an expanded scope for human rights Promoting the realization of social and economic right Including the voices of African scholars, scholar-filmmakers, African directors Jean-Marie Teno and Gaston Kaboré, and researchers whose work focuses on transnational cinema, this volume explores overall perspectives, and differences of perspective, pertaining to Africa, human rights, and human rights filmmaking alongside specific case studies of individual films and areas of human rights violations. With its interdisciplinary scope, attention to practitioners’ self-understandings, broad perspectives, and particular case studies, African Cinema and Human Rights is a foundational text that offers questions, reflections, and evidence that help us to consider film’s ideal role within the context of our ever-continuing struggle towards a more just global society.

Author : Alexie Tcheuyap
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103220379X

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African Documentary Cinema by Alexie Tcheuyap Pdf

Author : Mahir Saul,Ralph A. Austen
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780821419311

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Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century by Mahir Saul,Ralph A. Austen Pdf

Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century brings together a set of fascinating essays by international scholars on these contrasting cinema forms.

Author : Françoise Pfaff
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253216680

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Focus on African Films by Françoise Pfaff Pdf

'Focus on African Films' offers pluralistic perspectives on filmmaking across Africa, highlighting the distinct thematic, stylistic, and socioeconomic circumstances of African film production.

Author : Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994-08-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520077485

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Black African Cinema by Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike Pdf

An overview of the history of African cinema

Author : Carmela Garritano
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896804845

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African Video Movies and Global Desires by Carmela Garritano Pdf

African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana’s commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production. Produced and consumed under circumstances of dire shortage and scarcity, African video movies narrate the desires and anxieties created by Africa’s incorporation into the global cultural economy. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research conducted in Ghana over a ten-year period, as well as close readings of a number of individual movies, this book brings the insights of historical context as well as literary and film analysis to bear on a range of movies and the industry as a whole. Garritano makes a significant contribution to the examination of gender norms and the ideologies these movies produce. African Video Movies and Global Desires is a historically and theoretically informed cultural history of an African visual genre that will only continue to grow in size and influence.

Author : Josef Gugler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 025334350X

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African Film by Josef Gugler Pdf

In African Film: Re-imagining a Continent, Josef Gugler provides an introduction to African cinema through an analysis of 15 films made by African filmmakers. These directors set out to re-image Africa; their films offer Western viewers the opportunity to re-imagine the continent and its people. As a point of comparison, two additional films on Africa--one from Hollywood, the other from apartheid South Africa--serve to highlight African directors' altogether different perspectives. Gugler's interpretation considers the financial and technical difficulties of African film production, the intended audiences in Africa and the West, the constraints on distribution, and the critical reception of the films.

Author : Paulo de Medeiros,Livia Apa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429648915

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Contemporary Lusophone African Film by Paulo de Medeiros,Livia Apa Pdf

Offering a range of critical perspectives on a vibrant body of films, this collection of essays engages with questions specific to the various cinemas and films addressed while putting forward an argument for their inclusion in current debates on world cinema. The collection brings together 11 chapters by recognized scholars, who analyze a variety of films and videos from Angola, Cape Verde, Guiné-Bissau, and Mozambique. It also includes an interview with Pedro Pimenta, one of the most distinguished African film festival organizers. Drawing on various theoretical perspectives, the volume strives to reverse the relative invisibility that has afflicted these cinemas, arguing that most, if not all, Lusophone films are transnational in all aspects of production, acting, and reception. The initial three chapters sketch broad, comparative overviews and suggest theoretical approaches, while the ensuing chapters focus on specific case studies and discuss a number of key issues such as the convergence of film with politics, the question of gender and violence, as well as the revisiting of the period immediately following independence. Attention is given to fiction, documentary films and recent, short, alternative video productions that are overlooked by more traditional channels. The book stresses the need to pay attention to the significance of African film, and Lusophone African film in particular, within the developing field of world cinema. Bringing together general overviews, historical considerations, detailed case studies, and focused theoretical reflections, this book is a significant volume for students and researchers in film studies, especially African, Lusophone cultural studies, and world cinema.

Author : James E. Genova
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253010117

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Cinema and Development in West Africa by James E. Genova Pdf

“Illuminates the enduring importance of political and economic dynamics not yet fully explored in the study of African cinema.” —Africa Cinema and Development in West Africa shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strategies of nation building during the transition from French rule to the early postcolonial period. James E. Genova sees the construction of African identities and economic development as the major themes in the political literature and cultural production of the time. Focusing on film both as industry and aesthetic genre, he demonstrates its unique place in economic development and provides a comprehensive history of filmmaking in the region during the transition from colonies to sovereign states.

Author : Añuli Agina,Barbara Knorpp,Winston Mano
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527500570

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African Film Cultures by Añuli Agina,Barbara Knorpp,Winston Mano Pdf

The growing body of films in and around Africa, and the seemingly incongruent growth in African film scholarship, suggests the need for new perspectives, approaches and insights into film cultures in Africa. Although it is impossible to capture the entire diversity of existing African film cultures, this collection, which has resulted from African film conferences organized by the University of Westminster, United Kingdom, has recognized the significance and urgency of this task. The book offers a unique engagement with widened African film ‘cultures’ in the context of diverse peoples, histories, geographies, languages and changing film production cultures shaped by audiences and users at home and in the diaspora. The volume is a significant contribution to the processes of representing the self and other, as well as the emergence of alternative, non-official dialogues, circulation and consumption, including on social media. Students, researchers, film policy makers, film producers, distributors and anyone else with an interest in African screen media will find in the book useful and readable analyses of socio-political factors that affect and are shaped by African film.

Author : Melissa Thackway,Jean-Marie Teno
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847012425

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Reel Resistance by Melissa Thackway,Jean-Marie Teno Pdf

Weaving together critical analysis and a filmic conversation, this book journeys through the multiple layers of Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno's thematically and aesthetically challenging body of work, framed here as a formof decolonial cinematic resistance.

Author : Clive Nwonka,Anamik Saha
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781912685639

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Black Film British Cinema II by Clive Nwonka,Anamik Saha Pdf

The politics of race in British screen culture over the last 30 years vis-a-vis the institutional, textual, cultural and political shifts that have occurred during this period. Black Film British Cinema II considers the politics of blackness in contemporary British cinema and visual practice. This second iteration of Black Film British Cinema, marking over 30 years since the ground-breaking ICA Documents 7 publication in 1988, continues this investigation by offering a crucial contemporary consideration of the textual, institutional, cultural and political shifts that have occurred from this period. It focuses on the practices, values and networks of collaborations that have shaped the development of black film culture and representation. But what is black British film? How do such films, however defined, produce meaning through visual culture, and what are the political, social and aesthetic motivations and effects? How are the new forms of black British film facilitating new modes of representation, authorship and exhibition? Explored in the context of film aesthetics, curatorship, exhibition and arts practice, and the politics of diversity policy, Black Film British Cinema II provides the platform for new scholars, thinkers and practitioners to coalesce on these central questions. It is explicitly interdisciplinary, operating at the intersections of film studies, media and communications, sociology, politics and cultural studies. Through a diverse range of perspectives and theoretical interventions that offer a combination of traditional chapters, long-form essays, shorter think pieces, and critical dialogues, Black Film British Cinema II is a comprehensive, sustained, wide ranging collection that offers new framework for understanding contemporary black film practices and the cultural and creative dimensions that shape the making of blackness and race. Contributors Bidisha, Ashley Clark, Shelley Cobb, James Harvey, Melanie Hoyes, Maryam Jameela, Kara Keeling, Ozlem Koksal, Rabz Lansiquot, Sarita Malik, Richard Martin, So Mayer, Alessandra Raengo, Richard T. Rodríguez, Tess S. Skadegård Thorsen, Natalie Wreyford

Author : Roy Armes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0253218985

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African Filmmaking by Roy Armes Pdf

Armes offers a wealth of information and a unique perspective on the history and future of African filmmaking.

Author : Olivier Barlet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015049696209

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African Cinemas by Olivier Barlet Pdf

"Exploring the achievements and challenges of those who seek to affirm African cultural values through film, the book also covers the African television industry and African-American cinema. It includes interviews with film-makers, stills from the films and, ultimately, a plea for seeing and respecting the otherness of the Other. The French National Film Centre's best film book of 1997 and now available in four languages, this is a book which takes us into a process of learning how to look."--BOOK JACKET.