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African Cinema Politics and Culture (Blacks in the Diaspora)

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Manthia Diawara's study on African cinema has been long awaited. Indeed, few areas as important as African cinema have been so largely neglected by the critical community. We do have Franloise Pfaff's seminal study on Semb ne Ousmane, as well as her work on twenty-five major directors; we also have a series of critical articles and an anthology on black Cinema by Mbye Cham. Major scholars are writing on the topic in French. We have the definitive bibliographic work of Nancy Schmidt. However, Manthia Diawara has staked out a unique place for himself in recent years as the leading theoretician on African cinema; thus, people had been expecting that his book would represent a major critical breakthrough in the field. Within this context, African Cinema is a disappointment. It does not provide us with a coherent theoretical framework, and it fails to develop a critical elaboration or poetics of this naissant film tradition in Africa. Nor does it provide us with political or cultural analyses of most of the films. Rather, it addresses the growth of the film industry itself

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791.430 96 Dia A

Publisher

Bloomington : Indiana University Presss., 1992

Collation

192 p.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-2532-0707-4

Classification

791.430 96

Edition

1

Subject(s)

Motion pictures
Motion pictures--Political aspects
Motion pictures--Social aspects

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