TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ukadike,Nwachukwu Frank
TI  - Critical approaches to African cinema discourse
SN  - 9780739180945 (ebook)
PY  - 2014///
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Africa
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Study and teaching (Higher)
KW  - Performing Arts
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Film history, theory & criticism
KW  - thema
KW  - Literature: history & criticism
KW  - Politics & government
KW  - In motion pictures
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also available in printed form ISBN 9780739180938; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - This text emphasizes the plurality of African cinema through a variety of themes and critical approaches that illuminate the scope of the mobilizing techniques for its proliferation, as well as its deep concern for methods of production, film aesthetics, theory, and criticism; Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to lay bare the diversity and essence of African cinema discourse. It is an anthology of historical reflections, critical essays, and interviews by film critics, historians, theorists, and filmmakers that signifies a dialogue and engagement apropos the ideology and cultural politics of film production in Africa. The contributors are extremely concerned, not only with the history of African cinema, but with its future and its potential. This book, then, is not limited to the expansion of the discourse on African cinema, but tries to approach the definition of the critical canon within the exigencies and manifestations of art and African sociopolitical practices. The authors view these practices as an investment in a cultural imperative stemming from the quest to delineate how critical methodologies are derived from and shape contemporary historical and cultural practices. Hence, the contributions are less about the usual constrictive method of analysis and more about illustrating manifestations of an interrogative critical methodology that is certainly an offspring of an indigenous African critical cum cinematic culture and paradigms
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ER  -