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Africa Shoots Back:

Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African Film
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James Currey Publishers, 2003 - History - 230 pages

Filmmakers in sub-Saharan francophone Africa have been using cinema since independence in the 1960s to challenge existing Western stereotypes of the continent.

In Africa Shoots Back, Melissa Thackway illustrates how directors working in a postcolonial context have produced these alternative depictions of African identity. She shows how memory and history have become central themes in African films and how local cultural forms have been integrated into the film medium. Interviews with eight African filmmakers enlarge Thackway’s account of the new cinematic codes and previously silenced voices given life in African film.

  

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Selected pages

Contents

List of Photographs Stills Posters
ii
IB Critical Paradigms 1 7 The Problematic Legacy of Eurocentrism
21
the cultural context
49
i2o Filming the Immigrant Experience Francophone African Cinema in Europe
120
Afrique sur Seine
121
illusions delusions integration or return?
124
Interracial relationships immigrant communities
139
African Women Film On Screen and Behind the Camera
147
Adama Drabo I
183
Anne Laure Folly ii
191
Dani Kouyate
193
Fanta Rtigina Nacro iv
197
Abderrahmane Sissako vi
198
JeanMarie Teno viii
204
Bibligraphy
210
Filmography
218

Sail Faye Anne Laure Folly Fanta R Nacro
151
Womanist Films
164
Conclusion
179
Index
224
Copyright

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About the author (2003)

Melissa Thackway has a Ph.D. from the University of Bath and has published numerous articles on francophone West African film. Based in Paris, she works as a freelance researcher, translator, and documentary filmmaker.

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TitleAfrica Shoots Back: Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African Film
AuthorMelissa Thackway
Editionillustrated
PublisherJames Currey Publishers, 2003
ISBN0852555768, 9780852555767
Length230 pages
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History / Africa / General
Performing Arts / Film & Video / History & Criticism
  
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