Africa Shoots Back: Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African FilmFilmmakers 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
a brief history of subSaharan Francophone African film | 7 |
Critical Paradigms | 16 |
The Problematic Legacy of Eurocentrism | 17 |
Postmodernism or Postcoloniality? | 21 |
Towards New Paradigms | 27 |
Cultural Identity Representation Voice | 30 |
Alternative Perspectives or Reassessing Identity through Film | 37 |
African Women Film On screen Behind the Camera | 147 |
Safi Faye Anne Laure Folly Fanta R Nacro | 151 |
Womanist Films | 164 |
Conclusion | 179 |
Interviews with Directors | 183 |
Anne Laure Folly II | 191 |
Dani Kouyate III | 193 |
Fanta Regina Nacro IV | 196 |
Screen Griots Orature Film | 49 |
The Stylistic and Structural Influences of Orature on Film | 59 |
Memory History Other stories | 93 |
The Colonial Confrontation Genre | 94 |
Afrique je te plumerai Asientos Allah Tuition and Fadjal | 97 |
Filming the Immigrant Experience Francophone African Cinema in Europe | 120 |
Afrique sur Seine | 121 |
The Myth of Europe illusions delusions integration or return? | 124 |
Interracial relationships and immigrant communities | 139 |
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