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Lexington Books Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse

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Product Description Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to lay bare the diversity and essence of African cinema discourse. It is an anthology of historical reflections, critical essays, and interviews by film critics, historians, theorists, and filmmakers that signifies a dialogue and engagement apropos the ideology and cultural politics of film production in Africa. The contributors are extremely concerned, not only with the history of African cinema, but with its future and its potential. This book, then, is not limited to the expansion of the discourse on African cinema, but tries to approach the definition of the critical canon within the exigencies and manifestations of art and African sociopolitical practices. The authors view these practices as an investment in a cultural imperative stemming from the quest to delineate how critical methodologies are derived from and shape contemporary historical and cultural practices. Hence, the contributions are less about the usual constrictive method of analysis and more about illustrating manifestations of an interrogative critical methodology that is certainly an offspring of an indigenous African critical cum cinematic culture and paradigms. Review This anthology of important and provocative criticism by international authors is a welcome addition to African film studies. It offers an overview of Africa's past and present cinematic output and explores themes, styles, politics, and socioeconomic issues. This collection challenges dominant modes of representation and scholarship and defines new paradigms of African film aesthetics. With this publication, and his previous articles and books, N. Frank Ukadike confirms his status as a keen observer and knowledgeable theoretician of African filmmaking.--Francoise Pfaff, Howard University About the Author Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike teaches in the Department of Communication and the Program in African and African Diaspora Studies at Tulane University. He is the author of Black African Cinema and Questioning African Cinema: Conversations with Filmmakers and the editor of IRIS: A Journal of Theory on Image and Sound (Special Issue on African Cinema).

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Brand: Lexington Books
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0739180932
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Film > History & Criticism
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 16 March 2014
Listed Since: 20 November 2013

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