{"product_id":"projections-of-dakar-reimagining-urban-senegal-through-cinema-hardback-9780896803480","title":"Projections of Dakar; (Re)Imagining Urban Senegal Through Cinema (Hardback) 9780896803480","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eProjections of Dakar\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003e(Re)Imagining Urban Senegal Through Cinema\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDevin Bryson (Author), Molly Krueger Enz (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780896803480\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 October 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 27 color and black-and-white images\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.406 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDevin Bryson and Molly Krueger Enz offer a cogent overview of some of the major cinematic works produced in the last few decades by Senegalese filmmakers residing in Senegal. Drawing on important theoretical frameworks of leading African thinkers and film scholars, this book offers a deft discussion of the seminal themes that have emerged in African intellectual circles as they relate to contemporary Senegalese film. - Valérie K. Orlando, University of Maryland The chapters are solid, well researched, and provide a good background to analyze Senegalese urban films of the past 25 years. Discursively, it enters into dialogue with works such as Ken Harrow’s \u003ci\u003eAfrican Cinema \u003c\/i\u003e(1999), Felwine Sarr’s \u003ci\u003eAfrotopia \u003c\/i\u003e(2016), and \u003ci\u003eWomen in African Cinema \u003c\/i\u003e(2020) by Bisshof and Van der Peer. Summing up: Recommended. (Choice)\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\u003ci\u003eProjections of Dakar\u003c\/i\u003e studies the audiovisual creations and practices of twenty-first-century Senegalese filmmakers living, working, and distributing their films in urban Senegal. Although some observers have described contemporary Senegalese cinema as a dying industry, this book shows that it retains great potential. Senegalese cinematic practitioners are forging unique, dynamic responses to social challenges and producing content in innovative forms.\u003cbr\u003e Like contemporary Senegalese cinema, African urban centers are often perceived as sites of despair and social decay. In each chapter of this book, Devin Bryson and Molly Krueger Enz focus on a particular urban issue and analyze how Senegalese filmmakers document and reimagine it from diverse perspectives and contexts. The authors draw from interviews and ethnographic observations to center filmmakers’ practices and conceptualizations of contemporary cinema in Dakar. Bryson and Enz trace developments in production, distribution, viewership, and audience response since 2012 to study how these films and their production both reveal and contribute to how people live in the city, relate to one another, build their lives, advocate for change, find joy and meaning, and build community. They also document and articulate more equitable and inclusive forms of these activities. Ultimately, the book illustrates how Senegalese filmmakers reimagine Africa as a place that will lead to a better future for its inhabitants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52584771715352,"sku":"9780896803480","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/projections-of-dakar-reimagining-urban-senegal-through-cinema-hardback-9780896803480","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}