Authors: Josef Gugler
ISBN-13: 9780253216434, ISBN-10: 0253216435
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Date Published: October 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Josef Gugler is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Contemporary African Studies at the University of Connecticut.
In African Film: Re-imagining a Continent, Josef Gugler provides an introduction to African cinema through an analysis of 15 films made by African filmmakers. These directors set out to re-image Africa; their films offer Western viewers the opportunity to re-imagine the continent and its people. As a point of comparison, two additional films on Africa one from Hollywood, the other from apartheid South Africa serve to highlight African directors' altogether different perspectives.
Gugler's interpretation considers the financial and technical difficulties of African film production, the intended audiences in Africa and the West, the constraints on distribution, and the critical reception of the films.
17 Films in 17 Sentences | ||
Preface | ||
Basic Indicators for African Countries | ||
Political Map of Africa | ||
Introduction: Africans Re-Image Africa | 1 | |
Historical Map of Africa | 16 | |
1 | Recovering the African Past | 17 |
Out of Africa, 1985 | 23 | |
Yaaba, 1989 | 29 | |
Keita! 1995 | 36 | |
2 | Fighting Colonialism | 45 |
Sambizanga, 1972 | 51 | |
Flame, 1996 | 57 | |
3 | The Struggle for Majority Rule in South Africa | 65 |
The Gods Must Be Crazy, 1980 | 71 | |
A Dry White Season, 1989 | 80 | |
Mapantsula, 1988 | 91 | |
Fools, 1997 | 97 | |
4 | Betrayals of Independence | 107 |
Kongi's Harvest, 1970 | 113 | |
Kala, 1974 | 126 | |
Tableau Ferraille, 1997 | 139 | |
The Blue Eyes of Yonta, 1992 | 147 | |
5 | The Exploited & Neglected Peasantry | 157 |
Finzan, 1990 | 160 | |
Kasarmu Ce, 1991 | 168 | |
6 | Between the African Mass Market & International Recognition | 177 |
Kini and Adams, 1987 | 181 | |
La Vie est belle, 1987 | 186 | |
Epilogue: Re-Imagining Ourselves | 193 | |
Sources & Credits | 194 | |
Index | 196 | |
The Author | 202 |