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Subject: Fwd: FYI: New book: _African Cinemas_ by Olivier Barlet




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Subject: FYI: New book: _African Cinemas_ by Olivier Barlet
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Date:    Fri, 29 Dec 2000
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NOW AVAILABLE FROM ZED BOOKS

TITLE: African Cinemas - Decolonizing the Gaze
AUTHOR: Olivier Barlet, translated by Chris Turner
KEY POINTS
* Prizewinning overview of African cinema and television
* A distinctive and original contribution to postcolonial theory

ISBN:
1 85649 742 9 hbk
1 85649 743 7 pbk

FEATURES: Photographs/Notes/Bibliography/Index/336 pp/Royal
format
LIBRARY CATEGORIES: Film Studies/African
Studies/Postcolonial
Theory

ABOUT THE BOOK
African Cinemas is both a personal journey and an introduction to the cinema
cultures of Africa. A book about the politics of cultural survival, it is
also a major overview of African cinema and television. Olivier Barlet
traces the development of African cinema,  from colonization to
Afrocentrism. He analyses specific films, particularly through narrative and
in terms of their African specificity, in the use of silence, orality and
humour. He talks to a huge range of film directors, including Ahmadou
Diallo, Med Hondo, Ousmane Sembene and Salif Traore.  He explores the social
and economic contexts of the African cinema and television industry,
including its often vexed relations with the West and the problems of
production and distribution African film-makers face.  Exploring the
achievements and challenges of those who seek to affirm African cultural
values through film, the book is ultimately a plea for seeing and respecting
the otherness of the Other. This is a book which takes us into learning how
to look.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Olivier Barlet is film critic and chief editor of the monthly magazine
Africultures (L Harmattan, Paris). He has written many books on Africa.


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