Images Out of Africa: The Virginia Garner Diaries of the Africa Motion Picture Project
- ISBN-10
- 0761853804
- ISBN-13
- 9780761853800
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 260
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Press of America
- Author
- Virginia Garner
Description
In 1938, Virginia and Ray Garner began making films in the Belgian Congo and French Cameroons. This book features Virginia Garner's diaries, which highlight the challenges of making films in Africa in the 1930s and include rich descriptions of cross-cultural interactions and micro-negotiations with chiefs, headmen, and villagers.
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