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Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora

Anjali Prabhu 

ISBN: 978-1-405-19304-7

May 2014

Wiley-Blackwell

272 pages

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Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora

Anjali Prabhu

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May 2014
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Description

Analyzing art house films from the African continent and the African diaspora, this book showcases a new generation of auteurs with African origins from political, aesthetic, and spectatorship perspectives.

  • Focuses on art house cinema and discusses commercial African cinema
  • Enlarges our understanding of African film to include thematic and aesthetic influence
  • Highlights aesthetic and political aspects including racial identity, women’s issues, and diaspora
  • Heavily illustrated with over 90 film stills
  • Features selected stills integral to the filmic analysis in full color
  • Moves beyond Western-oriented analytical paradigms
About the Author

Anjali Prabhu is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Wellesley College, USA, where she also teaches in the Cinema and Media Studies Program. The author of Hybridity: Limits, Transformations, Prospects (2007), she has published widely in journals such as Cinema Journal, International Journal of French and Francophone Studies, Levinas Studies, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Diacritics, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literatures, Présence Francophone, and Comparative Literature Studies.

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