African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization: Volume 2: FESPACO—Formation, Evolution, Challenges

African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization: Volume 2: FESPACO—Formation, Evolution, Challenges
ISBN-10
0253066263
ISBN-13
9780253066268
Category
Art
Pages
660
Language
English
Published
2023-08-08
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Authors
Michael T. Martin, Gaston Jean-Marie Kaboré

Description

Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film. Volume Two of this landmark series on African cinema is devoted to the decolonizing mediation of the Pan African Film & Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), the most important, inclusive, and consequential cinematic convocation of its kind in the world. Since its creation in 1969, FESPACO's mission is, in principle, remarkably unchanged: to unapologetically recover, chronicle, affirm, and reconstitute the representation of the African continent and its global diasporas of people, thereby enunciating in the cinematic, all manner of Pan-African identity, experience, and the futurity of the Black World. This volume features historically significant and commissioned essays, commentaries, conversations, dossiers, and programmatic statements and manifestos that mark and elaborate the key moments in the evolution of FESPACO over the span of the past five decades.

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