Postcolonial African Cinema From Political Engagement to Postmodernism

Name: Postcolonial African Cinema From Political Engagement to Postmodernism
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ISBN: 9780253219145

ISBN-10: 0253219140

ISBN-13: 9780253219145

Edition: 2007

Authors: Kenneth W. Harrow

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A new critical approach to African cinema

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 7/20/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Kenneth W. Harrow is Professor of English at Michigan State University. His publications include Threshold of Change in African Literature: The Emergence of a Tradition, Less Than One and Double, and African Cinema: Postcolonial and Feminist Readings.



Preface: Out with the Authentic, In with the Wazimamoto


Introduction: The Creation of a Cinema Engagï¿½



Sembï¿½ne'sXalathe Fetish and the Failed Trickster



Cameroonian Cinema: Ba Kobhio, Teno, and the Technologies of Power



From Jalopy to Goddess:Quartier Mozart, Faat KineandDivine Carcasse



Toward a ï¿½iï¿½ekian Reading of African Cinema



Aristotle's Plot:What's Inside the Can?



Finye:The Fantasmic Support



Hyenas:Truth, Badiou'sEthicsand the Return of the Void



Toward a Postmodern African Cinema: Fanta Nacro's "Un Certain Matin" and Djibril Diop Mambï¿½ty'sParlons Grand-mï¿½re