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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958407203321

Autore

Armes Roy

Titolo

African filmmaking : North and South of the Sahara / / Roy Armes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Scotland, : Edinburgh U.P., 2006

ISBN

9786610553952

9780748670789

0748670785

9780748679232

0748679235

9781280553950

1280553952

9780748628063

0748628061

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Traditions in world cinema

Classificazione

AP 59770

Disciplina

791.43096

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Africa

Motion picture industry - Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The African experience -- pt. I. Context -- Beginnings -- African initiatives -- The French connection -- pt. II. Confronting reality -- Liberation and postcolonial society -- Individual struggle -- pt. III. New identities -- Experimental narratives -- Exemplary tales -- pt. IV. The new millennium -- The post-independence generation -- Mahamat Saleh Haroun (Chad) -- Dani Kouyaté (Burkina Faso) -- Raja Amari (Tunisia) -- Faouzi Bensaidi (Morocco) -- Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritania).

Sommario/riassunto

African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara is the first comprehensive study in English linking filmmaking in the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) with that in francophone West Africa and examining the factors (including Islam and the involvement of African and French governments) which have shaped post-independence production. The main focus is the development over forty years of two



main traditions of African filmmaking: a social realist strand examining the nature of postcolonial society and a more experimental approach where emphasis is placed on new stylistic patterns able to embrace history, myth and magic. The work of younger filmmakers born since independence is examined in the light of these two traditions.  Features:   *An overview of the socio-political context shaped by Islam and French colonialism.  *A look at filmmaking in Africa before the mid-1960s.  *An examination of the inputs of African and French governments into post-independence developments North and South of the Sahara.  *A historical survey of the two major tendencies in African film production over the past 40 years.  *A detailed analysis of the work of five talented young filmmakers, representative of those born since independence.