Overview
Analyzing art house films from the African continent and the African diaspora, this book showcases a new generation of auteurs with African origins from political, aesthetic, and spectatorship perspectives. Focuses on art house cinema and discusses commercial African cinema Enlarges our understanding of African film to include thematic and aesthetic influence Highlights aesthetic and political aspects including racial identity, women's issues, and diaspora Heavily illustrated with over 90 film stills Features selected stills integral to the filmic analysis in full color Moves beyond Western-oriented analytical paradigms
- | Author: Anjali Prabhu
- | Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- | Publication Date: Jun 23, 2014
- | Number of Pages: 272 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1405193034
- | ISBN-13: 9781405193030
