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... IN AFRICAN CINEMA Souleymane Cisse, Film still from Yeelen, 1987 74* Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art s I recently paged through a voluminous body languages of the characters...

...MANTHIA DIAWARA Copyright © 1995 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1995 ...

... trend that have conferences dedicated solely to convened a conference on African Film and Video in Gainesville, Florida. African cinema. In the pastyou had African cin• Author of the highly praised Redefining Black Film (University of California...

...Sheila Petty Contemporary African filmmakers are transforming African cinema as they move beyond the social realist aesthetic directives of independence times to explore the struggles and triumphs of Africans living in globalized contexts. In particular, documentary filmmaking stresses...

... of filmmaking in Africa go beyond his unprecedented third-term as Secretary General of the Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers, Fepaci. to include the remarkable efforts he has made toward establishing Burkina Faso as a veritable hub of African cinema. As a director...

...Elizabeth Mermin Copyright © 1996 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1996 African cinema has been around for forty between Sembene and Mambety is along cold...

... to “African cinema” associates it with exoticism, making it into a genre easily recognized by Western audiences. It is this idea of a backward, monolithic Africa that the curators of African Screens, Manthia Diawara and Lydie Diakhaté, intended to challenge. The provocative gesture can be found in the choice...

...Leena Habiballa This essay journeys through the silent dialogues and intimacies in Ibrahim Shaddad’s vivid cinematic oeuvre that render him a genre unto himself and a distinctive presence in Sudanese and African cinema. Much of Shaddad’s experimental work deals with the death of the psychic...

...Elizabeth Mermin Copyright © 1997 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1997 ...

... the year retrospectives of African cinema, knowledge of kind of political impact she hoped somehow to cre• African film on this side of the Atlantic was restrict• ate. ed to experts and those film buffs who might have It was at the 1989 Lucarno film-festival in caught a screening of something...

... and twenty-first centuries: the Manthia Diawara's African Cinema: Politics and Culture transition from pictorialism to idea-based image mak• and Black American Cinema, and Viola Shafik's Popular ing. With the dissolution of boundaries between the Egyptian Cinema; Gender, Class and Nation and Arab...

.... Illuminating and authoritative, this is the go-to book for scholars, students, and general audiences on Jimenez Underwood. ADRIANA ZAVALA LAURA E. PÉREZ AND ANN MARIE LEIMER / EDITORS Queer African Cinemas LINDSEY B. GREEN-SIMMS Queer African Cinemas LINDSEY B. GREEN-SIMMS a Camera Obscura book Lindsey B...

... imacy. In less than twenty years, though, the vide• youth from different African countries were ofilm has all but changed the discourse of global sequestered in the purpose-built Big Brother Africa cinema. Only the most enchanted American jour• house in South Africa for 106 days...

..., as opposed to litera- trees, banana trees, but most of all there are human beings. ture, is something mathematical. It is simultaneously artistic We are not ants. Now, why, how . . . I leave you to your and industrial. Where is African cinema today? What direc- Freudian complex...

... a narra• genre and plays an important role in creating a space for a genuinely com• tive circularity, hints at the suffocating physical organization of the plex South African cinema...

... Mbye B. Cham 68>Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art jibril Diop Marn bety is celebrated as the entity unto itself that aggressively calls attentions bad boy of African cinema, the quintessen• to itself and compels equal analytic focus as the Dtial iconocl ast whose...

... primary concerns. Contrary to my African cinema in the exhibition catalogue and related exhibition 48 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art PERSPECTIVE Fareed Armaly with Rashid Masharawi, From/To (Detail of installation), 2002...

..., as in Xamb #1 Djibril Diop Mambety (1945-1998). Director of (2001) or in silhouette as in Joola and Yunus, Touki Bouki (1973) and Hyenas (1992), Mambety large figures typically dominate the canvas. The is praised for these classics of African cinema graceful figures in Joola...

..., mg.co.za/article/2011- 10- 11- vice- of- white 13. Lucia Saks, “The Race for Representation: New Viewsites for - silence. Change in South African Cinema,” in To Change Reels: Film and 26. My emphasis on consent here is broadly derived from Dem- Culture in South Africa, ed. Isabel Baseiro and Ntongela...

... in and an African boy, and stood out because it avoids standard Moscow, not knowing anything about cinema, not even African characterizations. The Russians in the movie are people that cinema. Sissako was trying to understand, not just the cardboard whites that you find...