Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers

Beyond Representation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers is groundbreaking edited collection which explores the contributions of Francophone African women to the field of documentary filmmaking. Rich in its scope and critical vision it constitutes a timely contribution to cutting-edge scholarly debates on African cinemas. Featuring 10 chapters from prominent film scholars, it explores the distinctive documentary work and contributions of Francophone African women filmmakers since the 1960s. It focuses documentaries by North African and Sub-Saharan women filmmakers, including the pioneering work of Safi Faye in Kaddu Beykat, Rama Thiaw's The Revolution Will Not be Televised, Katy Lena Ndiaye's Le Cercle des noyes and En attendant les hommes, Dalila Ennadre's Fama: Heroism Without Glory and Leila Kitani's Nos lieux interdits. Shunned from costly fictional- 35mm-filmmaking, Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers examines how these women engaged and experimented with documentary filmmaking in personal, evocative ways that countered the officially sanctioned, nationalist practice of show and teach/promote"--

Produktdetails

• Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253066534
• ISBN-10: 0253066530
• Artikelnr.: 65502953

Autorenporträt

edited by Suzanne Crosta, Sada Niang, Alexie Tcheuyap, with contributions by Florence Martin, Sheila Petty, Melissa Thackway, El Hadji Moustapha Diop, Felix Veilleux, Suzanne Gauch, Herve Tchumkam

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, by Suzanne Crosta, Sada Niang, and Alexie Tcheuyap
1. Documenting the Unseemly: Moroccan Women's Documentaries in the 2000s,
by Florence Martin
2. Outsiders on the Inside: Rokhaya Diallo's Les marches de la liberté as
Activist Documentary, by Sheila Petty
3. Challenging Documentary Practice: A Return to Safi Faye's Kaddu Beykat,
by Melissa Thackway
4. Revisiting the "Domestic Ethnography" Approach in Khady Sylla's Une
Fenêtre ouverte, by El Hadji Moustapha Diop
5. Tales of Colonels: Auteurship and Authority in Mama Colonel (2017) and
This is Congo (2017), by Alexie Tcheuyap and Felix Veilleux
6. Authorizing Reality in Leila Kilani's Our Forbidden Places (2008) and
Kaouther Ben Hania's The Slasher of Tunis (2014), by Suzanne Gauch
7. Documenting Tyranny: The Politics of Memory in Leila Kilani and Osvalde
Lewat, by Herve Tchumkam
8. Ecological Representations in African Women Documentaries, by Suzanne
Crosta
9. Looping the Loop: Rama Thiaw's The Revolution Won't Be Televised
(2016), by Sada Niang
10. Dancing with the Camera: Interview with Nadine Otsobogo, by Suzanne
Crosta, Sada Niang, and Alexie Tcheuyap
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