Cinema and Development in West Africa : Film as a Vehicle for Liberation /

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
Autor principal: Genova, James Eskridge (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politik
Filmwirtschaft
Motion picture industry.
French colonies.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Motion picture industry > Africa, French-speaking West > History > 20th century.
Westafrika
French-speaking Western Africa.
Africa.
France > Colonies > Africa > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
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.

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