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Performing Arts General

Postnationalist African Cinemas

by (author) Alexie Tcheuyap

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2011
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780719083365
    Publish Date
    Apr 2011
    List Price
    $27.50
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780719083358
    Publish Date
    Apr 2011
    List Price
    $88.00

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Description

Postnationalist African cinemas convincingly interrogates the ways in which African narratives locate postcolonial identities and forms beyond essentially nationalist frameworks. It investigates how the emergence of new genres, discourses and representations, all unrelated to an overtly nationalist project, influences the formal choices made by contemporary directors. By foregrounding the narrative, generic, discursive, representational and aesthetic structures of films, this book shows how directors are beginning to regard film as a popular form of entertainment rather than political praxis.

Tcheuyap investigates filmic genres such as comedy, dance, crime and epic alongside cultural aspects including witchcraft, sexuality, pornography and oracles.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Alexie Tcheuyap is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Toronto.