Critical approaches to African cinema discourse / edited by Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.

Introduction: proliferating African film discourse / N. Frank Ukadike -- Critical perspectives. Approaches to African cinema study: defining other boundaries / Martin Mhando -- Theorizing African cinema: contemporary African cinematic discourse and its discontents / Esiaba Irobi -- Tradition/modernity and the discourse of African cinema / Jude Akudinobi -- History/discourse and intervention. Queering African film aesthetics: a survey from 1950s to 2003 / Martin P. Botha -- African cinemas and the role of the state: the cultural imperialism model / Roy Armes -- Transformation and South African cinema in the 1990s / Keyan G. Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson -- False dawns over the Kalahari? Botswana cinema in historical perspective / Neil Parsons -- Pluralisms, expressions, traits: reading the text. Chahine's cinematic Alexandria: Egyptian history and cultural identity / Suzanne H. MacRae -- Critical dialogues: transcultural modernities and modes of narrating Africa in documentary films / N. Frank Ukadike -- Relational constructs: discourses of gender in Taafe Fanga / Sheila Petty -- Reconsidering the Sembenian project: toward an aesthetics of change / Aboubakar S. Sanogo -- "Reel" Africanization. Video book and the manifestations of "first" cinema in Anglophone Africa / N. Frank Ukadike -- We can't wait for Oliver Stone: interview with Chief Eddie Ugbomah / N. Frank Ukadike.

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This book emphasizes the plurality of African cinema through a variety of themes and critical approaches that illuminate the scope of the mobilizing techniques for its proliferation, as well as its deep concern for methods of production, film aesthetics, theory, and criticism. Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse will offer scholars and students in film, media, and cultural studies, as well as in history, and Black and African studies, a broader understanding of African cinema as a cultural art. The contributors show that it is informed not only by ideological determinants but also.

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