African Diasporic Cinema : Aesthetics of Reconstruction /

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"African Diasporic Cinema: Aesthetics of Reconstruction examines contemporary diasporic African films, explores the aesthetic strategies used by black diasporic filmmakers to express identity reconstruction processes after migration, and highlights their films' continuities with and distan...

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Main Author: Ricci, Daniela, 1970- (Author)
Other Authors: Thackway, Melissa (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motion pictures.
Black people in the motion picture industry.
Black people in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS / General
Personnes noires au cinema.
Personnes noires dans l'industrie cinematographique.
Motion pictures > Africa.
Africa.
Africa > In motion pictures.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword, by Alexie Tcheuyap
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Contemporary African Diasporic Films
  • Part One. Identities, Representations, and Cinematographic Discourses
  • Chapter 1. The Question of Identity
  • Chapter 2. Cinematographic Representations: Representations and Their Consequences
  • Chapter 3. African Cinema: New Perspectives
  • Part Two. Film Analyses
  • Chapter 4. Introduction to the Socio-Aesthetic Analysis of African Diasporic Film
  • Chapter 5. To Each Their Own Truth: Rage, by Newton I. Aduaka
  • Chapter 6. Between Fiction and Experience: Juju Factory, by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
  • Chapter 7. In-Between Places: Notre etrangere, by Sarah Bouyain
  • Chapter 8. Interior/Exterior Worlds: L'Afrance, by Alain Gomis
  • Chapter 9. Worlds in Construction and the Intellectual's Return: Teza, by Haile Gerima
  • In Guise of a Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Films Cited
  • Index.

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