Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0739180932 ISBN 13 : 9780739180938

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2014

Synopsis

Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to lay bare the diversity and essence of African cinema discourse. It is an anthology of historical reflections, critical essays, and interviews by film critics, historians, theorists, and filmmakers that signifies a dialogue and engagement apropos the ideology and cultural politics of film production in Africa.

The contributors are extremely concerned, not only with the history of African cinema, but with its future and its potential. This book, then, is not limited to the expansion of the discourse on African cinema, but tries to approach the definition of the critical canon within the exigencies and manifestations of art and African sociopolitical practices. The authors view these practices as an investment in a cultural imperative stemming from the quest to delineate how critical methodologies are derived from and shape contemporary historical and cultural practices. Hence, the contributions are less about the usual constrictive method of analysis and more about illustrating manifestations of an interrogative critical methodology that is certainly an offspring of an indigenous African critical cum cinematic culture and paradigms.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike teaches in the Department of Communication and the Program in African and African Diaspora Studies at Tulane University. He is the author of Black African Cinema and Questioning African Cinema: Conversations with Filmmakers and theeditor of IRIS: A Journal of Theory on Image and Sound (Special Issue on African Cinema).

Sheila Petty is Professor Emerita of Film Studies at the University of Regina, Canada.

Keyan G. Tomaselli is professor and chair of Culture, Communication and Media Studies (CCMS) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. He has written extensively on his Kalahari research in Visual Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Critical Arts and Cultural Studies: Critical Methodologies. He is author of Appropriating Images: The Semiotics of Visual Representation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0739180932
• ISBN 13: 9780739180938
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Éditeur: Ukadike Nwachukwu Frank
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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