{"product_id":"african-cinema-manifesto-and-practice-for-cultural-decolonization-volume-1-colonial-antecedents-constituents-theory-and-articulations-hardback-9780253066206","title":"African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization; Volume 1: Colonial Antecedents, Constituents, Theory, and Articulations (Hardback) 9780253066206","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAfrican Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eVolume 1: Colonial Antecedents, Constituents, Theory, and Articulations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael T. Martin (Edited by), Gaston Jean-Marie Kaboré (Edited by), Michael T. Martin (Contributions by), Roy Armes (Contributions by), James E. Genova (Contributions by), Femi Okiremuete Shaka (Contributions by), James Burns (Contributions by), Tom Rice (Contributions by), Odile Goerg (Contributions by), Med Hondo (Contributions by), Haile Gerima (Contributions by), Sada Niang (Contributions by), Monique Mbeka Phoba (Contributions by), Clyde R. Taylor (Contributions by), Férid Boughedir (Contributions by), Alexie Tcheuyap (Contributions by), Esiaba Irobi (Contributions by), Stephen A. Zacks (Contributions by), Teshome H. Gabriel (Contributions by), David Murphy (Contributions by), Jude Akudinobi (Contributions by), Maureen N. Eke (Contributions by), Paulin Soumanou Vieyra (Contributions by), Boukary Sawadogo (Contributions by), Olivier Barlet (Contributions by), Samba Gadjigo (Contributions by), Beti Ellerson (Contributions by), Joseph E. Roskos (With)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253066206\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 August 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e638 pages, 69 color photos, 43 b\u0026amp;w photos, 1 figure\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm, 1.016 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAfrican Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization \u003c\/i\u003ecombines theory and praxis as a means to explore the social, cultural, political, economic and gendered dynamics of African cinemas within a global context, all of which are determining factors in how African filmmaking practitioners and stakeholders negotiate their place as directors, producers, organizers, activists, scholars, distributors, cultural readers. The collection is an important addition to African Cinema Studies in particular, and the library of Film Studies in general.\"—Beti Ellerson, Founder and Director, Centre for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema\u003cbr\u003e \"Setting out, \u003ci\u003eAfrican Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e positioned itself at the intersection of a theory and practice of cultural self-apprehension, with all the contradictions that come with that position. In this three-volume compendium, Martin, Kaboré and their various collaborators have provided a comprehensive, almost exhaustive, account eventuating in a third, element—history. A more comprehensive account will be hard to find anywhere else.\"—Akin Adesokan, Indiana University\u003cbr\u003e \"This is a long-awaited volume of detailed, and analytical information and commentary that maps the development of the cinema of a large continent and the background ideas that have influenced its formation.\"—June Givanni, Director of the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive (JGPACA)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChallenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eVolume One of this landmark series on African cinema draws together foundational scholarship on its history and evolution. Beginning with the ideological project of colonial film to legitimize the economic exploitation and cultural hegemony of the African continent during imperial rule to its counter-historical formation and theorization. It comprises essays by film scholars and filmmakers alike, among them Roy Armes, Med Hondo, Fèrid Boughedir, Haile Gerima, Oliver Barlet, Teshome Gabriel, and David Murphy, including three distinct dossiers: a timeline of key dates in the history of African cinema; a comprehensive chronicle and account of the contributions by African women in cinema; and a homage and overview of Ousmane Sembène, the \"Father\" of African cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDedication\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e African Cinema and the Diasporic: Introductory Considerations, by Michael T. Martin and Gaston Jean-Marie Kaboré\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: Colonial Formations\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eColonial Cinema, by Roy Armes\u003cbr\u003e The Colonialist Regime of Representation, 1945-1960, by James E. Genova\u003cbr\u003e Politics of Cultural Conversion in Colonialist African Cinema, by Femi Okiremuete Shaka\u003cbr\u003e The African Bioscope: Movie-House Culture in British Colonial Africa, by James Burns\u003cbr\u003e From the Inside: The Colonial Film Unit and the Beginning of the End, by Tom Rice\u003cbr\u003e The Independence Generation: Film Culture and the Anti-Colonial Struggle in the 1950s, by Odile Goerg\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: Constituting African Cinema\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eWhat Is Cinema for Us?, by Med Hondo\u003cbr\u003e A Cinema Fighting for Its Liberation, by Férid Boughedir\u003cbr\u003e Where Are the African Women Filmmakers?, by Haile Gerima\u003cbr\u003e The FEPACI and Its Artistic Legacies, by Sada Niang\u003cbr\u003e New Avenues for FEPACI: Interview with Seipati Bulane-Hopa, by Monique Mbeka Phoba\u003cbr\u003e The Six Decades of African Film, by Olivier Barlet\u003cbr\u003e Africa, The Last Cinema, by Clyde R. Taylor\u003cbr\u003e The Pan-African Cinema Movement: Achievements, Misadventures, and Failures (1969-2020), by Férid Boughedir\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III: Theorizing African Cinema\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eAfrican Cinema(s): Definitions, Identity, and Theoretical Considerations, by Alexie Tcheuyap\u003cbr\u003e Theorizing African Cinema: Contemporary African Cinematic Discourse and Its Discontents, by Esiaba Irobi\u003cbr\u003e The Theoretical Construction of African Cinema, by Stephen A. Zacks\u003cbr\u003e Toward a Critical Theory of Third World Films, by Teshome H. Gabriel\u003cbr\u003e Africans Filming Africa: Questioning Theories of an Authentic African Cinema, by David Murphy\u003cbr\u003e Tradition\/Modernity and the Discourse of African Cinema, by Jude Akudinobi\u003cbr\u003e Toward a Theory of Orality in African Cinema, by Keyan G. Tomaselli, Arnold Shepperson, and Maureen N. Eke\u003cbr\u003e Film and the Problem of Languages in Africa, by Paulin Soumanou Vieyra\u003cbr\u003e In Defense of African Film Studies, by Boukary Sawadogo\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart IV: Articulations of African Cinema\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eDossier 1: Key Dates in the History of African Cinema, by Olivier Barlet and Claude Forest\u003cbr\u003e Dossier 2: Ousmane Sembène, by Sada Niang and Samba Gadjigo\u003cbr\u003e Dossier 3: African Women in Cinema, by Beti Ellerson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52695221764376,"sku":"9780253066206","price":56.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/african-cinema-manifesto-and-practice-for-cultural-decolonization-volume-1-colonial-antecedents-constituents-theory-and-articulations-hardback-9780253066206","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}