Black African Cinema

Name: Black African Cinema
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ISBN: 9780520077485

ISBN-10: 0520077482

ISBN-13: 9780520077485

Edition: 1994

Authors: Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike

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From the proselytizing lantern slides of early Christian missionaries to contemporary films that look at Africa through an African lens, N. Frank Ukadike explores the development of black African cinema. He examines the impact of culture and history, and of technology and co-production, on filmmaking throughout Africa. Every aspect of African contact with and contribution to cinematic practices receives attention: British colonial cinema; the thematic and stylistic diversity of the pioneering "francophone" films; the effects of television on the motion picture industry; and patterns of television documentary filmmaking in "anglophone" regions. Ukadike gives special attention to the growth…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Africa and the Cinema


Information and Entertainment Media in Black Africa before the Arrival of Cinema


Some Early Contacts with the Cinema


Western Images of Africa: Genealogy of an Ideological Formulation


Banishing the Exotic: Toward a Positive Image?



Francophone Origins


General Trends and the Problems of Development: An Overview


The Indigenous African Film Production


Med Hondo and Ousmane Sembene: The Schism between Theory and Practice



Developments in Anglophone Film Production


Working for the Decolonization of the Picture


The Battle of the Frames: Film, Television, and Bureaucracy


The Formation of Independent Cinema in Ghana and Nigeria


Ghana: Contrasts in Ideology and Practice


Nigeria: Paradox of Mediocrity?



The Cultural Context of Black African Cinema


Post-1970 and the Introspective Phase


Oral Tradition and the Aesthetics of Black African Cinema


Film and the Politics of Liberation



New Developments In Black African Cinema


Contours of an Emerging Trend: Toward a New Cinema?


Narration, Transgression, and the Centrality of Culture


Toward the Tradition and the Centrality of the Paradigm



Conclusion: Whither African Cinema?


The Present Situation


The Question of Aesthetics


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index