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Analyzing art house films from the African continent and the African diaspora, this book showcases a new generation of auteurs with African origins from political, aesthetic, and spectatorship perspectives.

  • Focuses on art house cinema and discusses commercial African cinema
  • Enlarges our understanding of African film to include thematic and aesthetic influence
  • Highlights aesthetic and political aspects including racial identity, women’s issues, and diaspora
  • Heavily illustrated with over 90 film stills
  • Features selected stills integral to the filmic analysis in full color
  • Moves beyond Western-oriented analytical paradigms

Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora

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Analyzing art house films from the African continent and the African diaspora, this book showcases a new generation of auteurs... Read more

    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 27/06/2014
    ISBN13: 9781405193030, 978-1405193030
    ISBN10: 1405193034

    Number of Pages: 272

    Non Fiction , Art & Photography

    Description

    Analyzing art house films from the African continent and the African diaspora, this book showcases a new generation of auteurs with African origins from political, aesthetic, and spectatorship perspectives.

    • Focuses on art house cinema and discusses commercial African cinema
    • Enlarges our understanding of African film to include thematic and aesthetic influence
    • Highlights aesthetic and political aspects including racial identity, women’s issues, and diaspora
    • Heavily illustrated with over 90 film stills
    • Features selected stills integral to the filmic analysis in full color
    • Moves beyond Western-oriented analytical paradigms

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