African Film: Re-imagining a Continent

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Indiana University Press, 2003 - 202 pages

In African Film: Re-imagining a Continent, Josef Gugler provides an introduction to African cinema through an analysis of 15 films made by African filmmakers. These directors set out to re-image Africa; their films offer Western viewers the opportunity to re-imagine the continent and its people. As a point of comparison, two additional films on Africa--one from Hollywood, the other from apartheid South Africa--serve to highlight African directors' altogether different perspectives.

Gugler's interpretation considers the financial and technical difficulties of African film production, the intended audiences in Africa and the West, the constraints on distribution, and the critical reception of the films.

 

Contents

Yaaba 1989
29
The Gods Must Be Crazy 1980
70
A Dry White Season 1989
83
Mapantsula 1988
91
Fools 1997
97
Betrayals 107 of Independence
107
The Exploited 157 Neglected Peasantry
160
Between the African Mass Market 177 International Recognition
181
Epilogue ReImagining Ourselves
193
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Josef Gugler is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Contemporary African Studies at the University of Connecticut.

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