Cinema and Development in West Africa - Film As a Vehicle for Liberation

Informationen zum Autor James E. Genova is Associate Professor of History at the Ohio State University-Marion. He is author of Colonial Ambivalence, Cultural Authenticity, and the Limitations of Mimicry in French-Ruled West Africa, 1914-1956. Klappentext James E. Genova is Associate Professor of History at the Ohio State University-Marion. He is author of Colonial Ambivalence, Cultural Authenticity, and the Limitations of Mimicry in French-Ruled West Africa, 1914-1956. Zusammenfassung 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Cinema as Art and Industry 1. The Cinema Industrial Complex in French West Africa to the 1950s 2. The Colonialist Regime of Representation, 1945-1960 3. West African Anti-Colonial Film Politics, 1950s-1960s 4. The Post-Colonial African Regime of Representation 5. The West African Cinema Industrial Complex, 1960s-1975 Postscript: Francophone West African Cinema to the Present Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: James E. Genova
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.09.2013
• EAN: 9780253010025
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01002-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)