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

Other author Ukadike, Nwachukwu Frank.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLanham : Lexington Books, [2014]
Descriptionxvi, 283 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents Proliferating African film discourses / 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 booms and the manifestations of "first" cinema in Anglophone Africa / N. Frank Ukadike -- We can't wait for Oliver Stone: interview with Eddie Ugbomah / N. Frank Ukadike.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2013046980
ISBN9780739180938 (cloth)
ISBN0739180932 (cloth)

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