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African cinema : postcolonial and feminist readings
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African cinema : postcolonial and feminist readings

Author: Kenneth W Harrow
Publisher: Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, ©1999.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kenneth W Harrow
ISBN: 0865436967 9780865436961 0865436975 9780865436978
OCLC Number: 39739657
Description: xxiv, 356 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: pt. 1, Theorizing African cinema : postcolonial perspectives -- Theoretical construction of African cinema / Stephen Zacks -- African filmmaking and the postcolonial predicament : Quartier Mozart and Aristotle's plot / Jonathan Haynes -- Towards a theory of orality in African cinema / Keyan Tomaselli, Arnold Shepperson, and Maureen Eke -- pt. 2, Studies in postcolonial films -- A problematic sign of African difference in Trinh T. Minh-ha's Reassemblage / Stephen A Zacks -- Look homeward, angel : maroons and mulattos in Haile Gerima's Sankofa / Sylvie Kandé -- The missing narrative in Wend Kuuni (Time and space) / Marie-Madgaleine Chirol -- Yeelen : a political fable of the Kome blacksmiths/sorcerers / Suzanne H. MacRae -- pt. 3, The question of national cinemas -- Nigerian cinema : structural adjustments / Jonathan Haynes -- Portuguese African cinema : historical and contemporary perspectives, 1969-1993 / Claire Andrade-Watkins -- A window on whose reality? : the emerging industry of Senegalese cinema / Elizabeth Mermin -- pt. 4, Feminist approaches to African cinema -- Women with open eyes, women of stone and hammers : Western feminism and African feminist filmmaking practice / Kenneth W. Harrow -- The mature and older women of African film / Suzanne MacRae -- The focus of tension : gender in Algerian cinema / Ratiba Hadj-Moussa -- Sub-Saharan African women filmmakers : agendas for research / Nancy J. Schmidt -- Women in African cinema : an annotated bibliography / Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol.
Responsibility: edited by Kenneth W. Harrow.

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