Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis volume is an important study of orality and narrative in Senegalese cinema, and it has a voice that is certain to emanate beyond its covers.
-- Ian Gerg * Notes *
[A]s the first monograph to focus on listening to a body of cinematic work from the African continent, Dima's book makes an undeniably welcome contribution, adding useful new critical concepts. African cinema has on the whole received short shrift from screen sound and music studies, a state of affairs the book clearly demonstrates is unjust. By focusing on Mambety's often radical use of sound, Dima argues forcefully that this rich and innovative body of work needs to play a far more central role in our understanding of the ways in which sound and image operate.
* Music, Sound, and the Moving Image *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Aural Contexts
1. Aural Space and the Sonic Rack Focus in Touki Bouki
2. Flâneur, Geography and caméra-flâneur in Badou-Boy and Contras' City
3. Trauma and Zombie Narratives in Hyènes
4. Voice(s) in Le Franc and La Petite vendeuse de soleil
Gallery of film stills
Conclusion: Current Contexts and Legacies
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
