African diasporic cinema aesthetics of reconstruction /
Daniela Ricci ; translated from French by Melissa Thackway ; foreword by Alexie Tcheuyap.
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource.
- African humanities and the arts .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword, by Alexie Tcheuyap -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Contemporary African Diasporic Films -- Part One. Identities, Representations, and Cinematographic Discourses -- Chapter 1. The Question of Identity -- Chapter 2. Cinematographic Representations: Representations and Their Consequences -- Chapter 3. African Cinema: New Perspectives -- Part Two. Film Analyses -- Chapter 4. Introduction to the Socio-Aesthetic Analysis of African Diasporic Film -- Chapter 5. To Each Their Own Truth: Rage, by Newton I. Aduaka -- Chapter 6. Between Fiction and Experience: Juju Factory, by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda -- Chapter 7. In-Between Places: Notre étrangère, by Sarah Bouyain -- Chapter 8. Interior/Exterior Worlds: L'Afrance, by Alain Gomis -- Chapter 9. Worlds in Construction and the Intellectual's Return: Teza, by Haile Gerima -- In Guise of a Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Films Cited -- Index.
"African Diasporic Cinema: Aesthetics of Reconstruction examines contemporary diasporic African films, explores the aesthetic strategies used by black diasporic filmmakers to express identity reconstruction processes after migration, and highlights their films' continuities with and distances from foundational African films. The analyzed films (by Newton I. Aduaka, Sarah Bouyain, Haile Gerima, Alain Gomis, and Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda) reflect different personal and artistic paths and various visions between Africa and Europe or the United States"--
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Black people in the motion picture industry. Black people in motion pictures. Motion pictures--Africa.