Projections of Dakar - Re)imagining Urban Senegal Through Cinema

This comprehensive overview of contemporary Senegalese documentary film culture features interviews with contemporary Senegalese filmmakers living and working in Dakar and analyses of the interconnections between cinema, social issues, and urban life in Senegal.

About the author

Devin Bryson is a professor of French and Francophone studies in the global studies program at Illinois College. He has published work in Research in African Literatures, the Journal of the African Literature Association, and African Studies Review. His research focuses on the cultural, cinematic, and literary practices and products from Francophone Africa, especially Senegal, and how those practices and products circulate locally and globally to reconfigure conceptualizations of African people, spaces, and relations.

Summary

This comprehensive overview of contemporary Senegalese documentary film culture features interviews with contemporary Senegalese filmmakers living and working in Dakar and analyses of the interconnections between cinema, social issues, and urban life in Senegal.

Product details

• Authors: Devin Bryson, molly Krueger/ Enz Devin, Molly Krueger Enz
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2024
• EAN: 9780896803480
• ISBN: 978-0-89680-348-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Research in International Studies, Africa Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous