Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Africa Watch: Parameters and Contexts -- Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl: Prototype of a Spectator of African Cinema -- Spectatorship and African Cinema -- Notes -- Part I Space -- Chapter 2 The Postcolonial City: Education of the Spectator in Harrikrisna Anenden's The Cathedral -- From Novella to Film -- A Protagonist for a Collective Spectator -- Interpellating the Spectator through Genre and Style -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Framing the City: Africanizing Viewer and Viewed through Angle, Distance, Genre, and Movement -- Notes -- Part II Character -- Chapter 4 Models of African Femininity -- Faat Kiné and Female Agency in Postcolonial Dakar -- Karmen Geï:TheMonumental Heroine in Global Cinema Context2 -- The Silences of the Palace: Burdens of the Past for Women in Postcolonial Tunisia -- Notes -- Chapter 5 African Masculinity: "We Don't Need Another Hero'' -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Revolutionary Personhood: Revolutionize the Spectator, or Stop, Thief! -- Notes -- Part III Narrative -- Chapter 7 Documentary Film: Situating a Style -- Notes -- Chapter 8 African Narration: Narration of Africa -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Jean-Marie Teno: Creating an African Repertoire -- Origins of a Style -- From Style to Method -- African Cinema: What, For Whom, How? -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Conclusion: Inside/Outside or How to Make a Film about Africa Today -- Notes -- Filmography -- References -- Glossary -- Index -- Supplemental Images.

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