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The African Film Industry: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for Growth
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Paris: UNESCO (2021), 271 pp.
"For the first time, a complete mapping of the film and audiovisual industry in 54 States of the African continent is available, including quantitative and qualitative data and an analysis of their strengths and weaknesses at the continental and regional levels. The report proposes strategic recomme
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La distribution en France des films d'Afrique sud saharienne francophone
Présence Francophone: Revue Internationale de langue et de littérature, volume 95, issue 1 (2020), 23 pp.
"Depuis leur apparition apres les independances politiques, les films realises par les Africains originaires des anciennes colonies françaises subsahariennes ont ete tres peu diffuses dans les salles de l'ancienne metropole. A de tres rares exceptions pres, ils ont egalement tres peu ete vus par le
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Cultural and Creative Industries Supporting Activities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Mapping and Analysis
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2020), 104 pp.
"Over the last 20 years, the power of cultural and creative industries (CCIs) as enablers and drivers of sustainable development has been broadly recognised. They are viewed as critical to social cohesion, social and economic transformation, and political stability. For this reason, it is important
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The Grounds of Circulation: Rethinking African Film and Media
Politique Africaine, issue 153 (2019), pp. 105-126
"The aesthetic form and financial infrastructures of African popular film has transformed in recent years leading to a revision of the paradigms for thinking African screen media. This paper assesses that rethinking. It examines three things. First, I argue the analysis of the technical, financial,
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L'audiovisuel africain et la capitalisme global
Politique Africaine, issue 153 (2019), pp. 7-159
"Ce dossier se concentre sur ces transformations plus récentes afin d’analyser leur impact sur l’économie et la politique de la production et de la distribution audiovisuelle en Afrique, tout en mettant en question les cadres théoriques et méthodologiques que nous adoptons en tant que cherch
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African Cinema and Human Rights
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2019), x, 314 pp.
"Bringing theory and practice together, 'African Cinema and Human Rights' argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the causes of justice and fairness. The contributors to this volume identify three key ways in which film can achieve these goals: documenting human rights
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Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty
London: Bloomsbury (2019), xii, 364 pp.
"Since the beginnings of African cinema, the realm of beauty on screen has been treated with suspicion by directors and critics alike. James S. Williams explores an exciting new generation of African directors, including Abderrahmane Sissako, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Fanta Regina Nacro, Alain Gomis, Ne
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African Film Studies: An Introduction
London; New York: Routledge (2019), xi, 142 pp.
"The book provides a succinct and comprehensive study of the history, aesthetics, and theory of sub-Saharan African cinematic productions that is grounded in the field of film studies instead of textual interpretations from other disciplines. Bringing African cinema out of the margins into the disci
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16. Afrika Film Festival Köln, 13.-23. September 2018. Fokus: Innerafrikanische Migration
Köln: FilmInitiativ Köln (2018), 134 pp.
"The 16th Afrika Film Festival Köln will present 75 new films from Africa – with a wider focus on migration within Africa Let’s start with some numbers: there are currently 68 million displaced people worldwide, most of whom now reside in countries bordering their homelands. The wide range of r
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Produire des films: Afriques et Moyen Orient
Presses Universitaires du Septentrion (2018), 386 pp.
"Dans des pays caractérisés par une profusion d’images essentiellement venues d’autres continents, et par une production très inégale, voire inexistante, quels ont été les modèles dominants de production ? Quels sont ceux que les mutations en cours font émerger ? Quels sont les enjeux é
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Dynamiques culturelles dans les cinémas africains du XXIe siècle. Acteurs, formats, réseaux = Cultural Dynamics in African Cinemas of the 21st Century. Agents, Formats, Genres
Universaar Universitätsverlag des Saarlandes (2018), 188 pp.
African Cinema on Demand? The Politics of Online Distribution and the Case of the African Film Library
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 10, issue 3 (2018), pp. 239-250
"This article considers the impact of online distribution on the long-term availability and preservation of African cinema. It examines the case of Electronic Media Network’s (M-Net) African Film Library (AFL), a video-on-demand (VOD) library of classic African films that was launched in 2012, but
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Cine-Ethiopia: The History and Politics of Film in the Horn of Africa
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press (2018), xx, 295 pp.
15. Afrika Film Festival Köln, 21. September bis 01. Oktober 2017. Fokus: Landgrabbing & Migration
Cologne: FilmInitiativ Köln (2017), 163 pp.
"Going to the cinema means going on a journey” reads one of the banners in Ouagadougou that have been put up to promote the legendary pan-African FESPACO film festival. Afrika Film Festival Köln has also been taking its guests on audiovisual journeys through African cinescapes for 25 years. More
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(Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire
Oxford et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xvi, 287 pp.
"The fortieth anniversary of the independence of the African countries colonized by Portugal presents a valuable opportunity to reassess how colonialism has been «imagined» through the medium of the moving image. The essays collected in this volume investigate Portuguese colonialism and its filmic
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Fantômas sous les tropiques: Aller au cinéma en Afrique coloniale
Paris: Eds. Vendémiaire (2015), 285 pp.
Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xvii, 270 pp.
"Tracing the history of Africa's relationship to film festivals and exploring the festivals' impact on the various types of people who attend festivals (the festival experts, the ordinary festival audiences, and the filmmakers), Dovey reveals what turns something called a "festival" into a "festival
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Afrika Filmfestival Leuven 2015
Leuven: vzw Film en Cultuurpromotie (2015), 210 pp.
In Focus: Studying African Cinema and Media Today
Cinema Journal, volume 54, issue 2 (2015), pp. 114-150
"This author started elaborating aspects of the present synthesis of strains of debates in African cinema following the “Semaphores and Surfaces” conference on African cinema held at Princeton University on November 1–3, 2013—co-organized by Wendy Belcher and Beatriz Leal Riesco and featurin
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Gaze Regimes: Film and Feminisms in Africa
Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2015), xxxiv, 229 pp.
"Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in film, either directly as practitioners or in other areas such as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of
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