Contemporary Lusophone African film transnational communities and alternative modernities / edited by Paulo de Medeiros and Livia Apa.
| Other author | Medeiros, Paulo de, 1958- |
| Other author | Apa, Livia, 1963- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Remapping world cinema: regional tensions and global transformations Remapping world cinema (Routledge (Firm)) UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Introduction: Situating Lusophone African Cinema / Paulo de Medeiros and Livia Apa -- Lusophone African Cinema as World-Cinema / Paulo de Medeiros -- Lusophone Filmmaking in the realm of transnational African cinemas: from 'global ethnic' to 'global aesthetic' / Ute Fendler -- Sounds of Liberation: Sarah Maldoror's Sambizanga (1972) and Miguel Gomes' Tabu (2012) / Marissa J. Moorman -- Resistance and Political Awareness Through the Eye-Camera of Sarah Maldoror / Maria do Carmo Pi©ʹarra -- The eleventh island: Cape Verde, the moving images and its diaspora / Livia Apa -- Postcolonial Testimony and the ruins of empire / Robert Stock -- In the Name of the Rosa: The Ethnographic Reflex in the Cinema of Lic©Ưnio Azevedo / Hilary Owen -- From the tabanca to Bissau, from Bissau to the Diaspora: Social Narratives in the Bissau-Guinean Popular Cinema / Paulo Cunha and Catarina Laranjeiro -- The Representation of Ritual and Cinema as a Ritual in Revolutionary Mozambique: Ruy Guerra's 'Mueda, Mem©đria e Massacre' / Raquel Schefer -- A melancholic outlook on 40 years of lusophone audio-visual production and Guinea, the two faces of the war as case study / Carolin Overhoff Ferreira -- 'We need to dress ourselves in the black light': an authorial analysis of Lusophone African cinema - Flora Gomes's case / Juscielle Oliveira -- Pedro Pimenta, in Interview / with Livia Apa. |
| Abstract | "Offering a range of critical perspectives on a vibrant body of films, this collection of essays engages with questions specific to the various cinemas and films addressed while putting forward an argument for their inclusion in current debates on world cinema. The Collection brings together eleven chapters by recognized scholars, who analyse a variety of films and videos from Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique. It also includes an interview with Pedro Pimenta, one of the most distinguished African film festival organisers. Drawing on various theoretical perspectives, the volume strives to reverse the relative invisibility that has afflicted these cinemas, arguing that most, if not all, Lusophone films are transnational in all aspects of production, acting, and reception. The initial three chapters sketch broad, comparative overviews, and suggest theoretical approaches, while the ensuing chapters focus on specific case studies and discuss a number of key issues such as the convergence of film with politics, the question of gender and violence, as well as the revisiting of the period immediately following independence. Attention is given to fiction, documentary films and recent, short, alternative video productions that are overlooked by more traditional channels. The book stresses the need to pay attention to the significance of African film, and Lusophone African film in particular, within the developing field of world cinema. Bringing together general overviews, historical considerations, detailed case studies, and focused theoretical reflections, this book is a significant volume for students and researchers in film studies, especially African, Lusophone cultural studies, and world cinema"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Contemporary Lusophone African film London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2021 9780367134976 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020028602 |
| ISBN | 9780429026836 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 9780429648915 (ePub ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
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