(Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas) 1st Edition
by Kenneth W. Harrow (Editor), Carmela Garritano (Editor)
An authoritative guide to African cinema with contributions from a team of experts on the topic
A Companion to African Cinema
offers an overview of critical approaches to African cinema. With
contributions from an international panel of experts, the Companion
approaches the topic through the lens of cultural studies, contemporary
transformations in the world order, the rise of globalization, film
production, distribution, and exhibition. This volume represents a new
approach to African cinema criticism that once stressed the sociological
and sociopolitical aspects of a film.
The text explores a wide
range of broad topics including: cinematic economics, video movies, life
in cinematic urban Africa, reframing human rights, as well as more
targeted topics such as the linguistic domestication of Indian films in
the Hausa language and the importance of female African filmmakers and
their successes in overcoming limitations caused by gender inequality.
The book also highlights a comparative perspective of African
videoscapes of Southern Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Côte d’Ivoire and
explores the rise of Nairobi-based Female Filmmakers. This important
resource:
- Puts the focus on critical analyses that take
into account manifestations of the political changes brought by
neocolonialism and the waning of the cold war
- Explores
- Examines the urgent questions raised by commercial video about globalization
- Addresses
issues such as funding, the acquisition of adequate production
technologies and apparatuses, and the development of adequately trained
actors
Written for film students and scholars, A Companion to African Cinema offers a look at new critical approaches to African cinema.
