Francophone African cinema : history, culture, politics and theory /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Frindéthié, Martial K. (Martial Kokroa), 1961-
Imprint:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2009.
Description:	viii, 263 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Motion pictures -- Africa, French-speaking. Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Africa, French-speaking. Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Africa, French-speaking. Culture conflict in motion pictures. Culture conflict in motion pictures. Motion pictures. Motion pictures -- Political aspects. Motion pictures -- Social aspects. Africa -- In motion pictures. Africa. Africa, French-speaking.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7699436

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ISBN:	9780786439621 (softcover : alk. paper) 0786439629 (softcover : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-251) and index.
Summary:	"This book offers a transnational and interdisciplinary analysis of 16 Francophone African films studied in the context of transnational conversations between African filmmakers and conventional theorists. It examines black French filmmakers' treatments of a number of cross-cultural themes, including intercontinental encounters and reciprocity, ideology and subjective freedom, governance and moral responsibility, sexuality and social order, and globalization"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: engaging African cinema
"There is no conversation here, my boy": spectral returns of Fanon and Hegel in Bassek Ba Kobhio's The great white man of Lambaréné
The language you govern in: the rise and fall of the African despot in Balufu Bakupa Kanyinda's Le damier: Papa national oyé and Cheick Oumar Sissoko's Guimba the tyrant
Nostalgic memories and nomadic spirits: Merzak Allouache's Bab-el-oued and Karim Dridi's Bye-bye
Allegorizing the quest for autonomy: Cheick Oumar Sissoko's Finzan and Amadou Seck's Saaraba
Writing the soxual order: Ousmane Sembåne's Faat Kiné and Ngangura Mweze's La vie est belle
Cogito must have gone crazy: construction and/as deconstruction of masculinity in Nouri Bouzid's Bent familia and Mufida Tlatli's The silences of the palace
Keita: the heritage of the griot: economic, social, and cultural organization of ancient Africa
Crisis in French Africa as hexagonal possibility: globalization à la françiaise
"There is no trade going on there": tales from the killing fields of the Congo
Conclusion.

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