Orlando Valerie K. Orlando

New African Cinema (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

New African Cinema examines the pressing social, cultural, economic, and historical issues explored by African filmmakers from the early post-colonial years into the new millennium. Offering an overview of the development of postcolonial African cinema since the 1960s, Valerie K. Orlando highlights the variations in content and themes that reflect the socio-cultural and political environments of filmmakers and the cultures they depict in their films. Orlando illuminates the diverse themes evident in the works of filmmakers such as Ousmane Sembene s Ceddo (Senegal, 1977), Sarah Maldoror s Sambizanga (Angola, 1972), Assia Djebar s La Nouba des femmes de Mont Chenoua (The Circle of women of Mount Chenoua, Algeria, 1978), Zeze Gamboa s The Hero (Angola, 2004) and Abderrahmane Sissako s Timbuktu (Mauritania, 2014), among others. Orlando also considers the influence of major African film schools and their traditions, as well as European and American influences on the marketing and distribution of African film. For those familiar with the polemics of African film, or new to them, Orlando offers a cogent analytical approach that is engaging.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 187
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780813579580
• Artikelnr.: 55102388

Autorenporträt

VALÉRIE K. ORLANDO is a professor of French and Francophone literatures and cultures and head of the French and Italian department at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of several books, including the forthcoming, The Algerian New Novel: The Poetics of a Modern Nation, 1950-1979.  

Inhaltsangabe

Author’s Note vii
Introduction 1
1 From Revolution to the Coming of Age of African Cinema, 1960s–1990s 39
2 New Awakenings and New Realities of the Twenty-First Century in African
Film 82
Conclusion: The Futures of African Film 141
Acknowledgments 145
Notes 147
Further Reading and Useful Websites 155
Works Cited 157
Selected Filmography: Twenty-First-Century Films 167
Index 169