Cinema and development in West Africa /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Genova, James Eskridge (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Motion picture industry > Africa, French-speaking West > History > 20th century.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
French colonies.
Motion picture industry.
Filmwirtschaft
Politik
France > Colonies > Africa > History > 20th century.
Africa.
French-speaking Western Africa.
Westafrika
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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