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Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse

Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse

Akudinobi, Jude G.
Armes, Roy
Ukadike, Nwachukwu Frank

Hardcover

Film StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0739180932
ISBN13: 9780739180938
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Mar 16 2014
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.39 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

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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