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  • African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization

    Volume 1: Colonial Antecedents, Constituents, Theory, and Articulations

    by Michael T. Martin, Gaston Jean-Marie Kaboré, Roy Armes, James E. Genova, Femi Okiremuete Shaka, James Burns, Tom Rice0, Odile Goerg1, Med Hondo2, Férid Boughedir3, Haile Gerima4, Sada Niang5, Monique Mbeka Phoba6, Olivier Barlet7, Clyde R. Taylor8, Alexie Tcheuyap9, Esiaba Irobi0, Stephen A. Zacks1, Teshome H. Gabriel2, David Murphy3, Jude Akudinobi4, Maureen N. Eke5, Arnold Shepperson6, Keyan G. Tomaselli7, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra8, Boukary Sawadogo9, Claude Forest0, Samba Gadjigo1, Beti Ellerson2 ...
    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film.Volume One of this landmark series on African cinema draws together foundational scholarship on its history and evolution. Beginning with the ideological project of colonial film to legitimize the economic ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse

    by Aboubakar S. Sanogo, Neil Parsons, Martin Mhando, Roy Armes, Keyan G. Tomaselli, Sheila Petty, Arnold Shepperson, Martin P. Botha, Esiaba Irobi, Suzanne H. MacRae, Jude G. Akudinobi ...
    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 ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

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  • Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture

    Edited by Grace A Musila ...
    This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, producers, platforms, and the material, affective and discursive resources they circulate – are influential in shaping African realities. Collectively, the chapters assembled in ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • A History of African Popular Culture

    by Karin Barber ...
    Series Book 11 - New Approaches to African History
    Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Postcolonial African Writers

    A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

    Edited by Siga Fatima Jagne, Pushpa Naidu Parekh ...
    This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically arranged profiles of some 60 writers, including Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tahbar Ben Jelloun, among others. Each entry includes a brief biography, a ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Cinema Studies

    Edited by Sandra Ponzanesi, Marguerite Waller ...
    This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is presented, not as a rigid category, but as an optic through which to address questions of postcolonial historiography, geography, subjectivity, and epistemology.Current circumstances of migration and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • In Senghor's Shadow

    Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960–1995

    by Elizabeth Harney, Nicholas Thomas ...
    Series series Objects/Histories
    In Senghor’s Shadow is a unique study of modern art in postindependence Senegal. Elizabeth Harney examines the art that flourished during the administration of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegal’s first president, and in the decades since he stepped down in 1980. As a major philosopher and poet of Negritude, Senghor envisioned an active and revolutionary role for modern artists, and he created a well ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Contemporary African Art

    by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir ...
    Series series World of Art
    A revised edition of this seminal title, surveying the diverse, ever-evolving field of contemporary African art from the 1950s to today, illustrated in color throughout.Contemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and its diaspora. It is not characterized by one particular style, technique, or theme, but by a bricolage-like attitude ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Global Nollywood

    The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry

    Edited by Matthias Krings, Onookome Okome ...
    Series series African Expressive Cultures
    "Reveals in fascinating detail the wild popularity, controversies, and complaints provoked by this film form . . . shap[ing] the media landscape of Africa." —Brian Larkin, Barnard CollegeGlobal Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In fifteen lively essays, this volume traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the African continent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Embodying Colonial Memories

    Spirit Possession, Power, and the Hauka in West Africa

    by Paul Stoller ...
    A study of the West African Hauka - spirits that grotesquely mimic and mock "Europeans" of the colonial epoch. The author considers spirit possession as a set of embodied practices with serious social and cultural consequences. Embodying Colonial Memories is the first in-depth study of the West African Hauka, spirits in the body of (human) mediums which mimic and mock Europeans of the colonial ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of African Literature

    Edited by Simon Gikandi ...
    The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field. The Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries covering criticism and theory, African literature's development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers and their texts. While the greatest proportion of literary work in ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Necessary Noise

    Music, Film, and Charitable Imperialism in the East of Congo

    by Chérie Rivers Ndaliko ...
    Since 1997, the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has taken more than 6 million lives and shapes the daily existence of the nation's residents. While the DRC is often portrayed in international media as an unproductive failed state, the Congolese have turned increasingly to art-making to express their experience to external eyes. Author Chérie Rivers Ndaliko argues that ... Read more

    $31.49 USD