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Cinema and development in West Africa /

This book shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strategies of nation building during the transition from French rule to the early postcolonial period. The author sees the construction of African identities and economic development as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Genova, James Eskridge (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : cinema as art and industry
  • The cinema industrial complex in French West Africa to the 1950s
  • The colonialist regime of representation, 1945-60
  • West African anticolonial film politics, 1950s-60s
  • The postcolonial African regime of representation
  • The West African cinema industrial complex, 1960s-70s
  • Postscript : Francophone West African cinema to the present.