20th century african film
A01=Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike
africa
african films
anglophone
Author_Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike
british colonial cinema
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cinema
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documentary film
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film
film and television
film criticism
film studies
film technology
filmmaking
francophone films
ghana
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lusophone filmmakers
militant liberationist
motion picture industry
movie theory
movies
nigeria
oral tradition
pan africanist vision
popular culture
yoruba theory film tradition
Product details
- ISBN 9780520077485
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 1994
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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From the proselytizing lantern slides of early Christian missionaries to contemporary films that look at Africa through an African lens, N. Frank Ukadike explores the development of black African cinema. He examines the impact of culture and history, and of technology and co-production, on filmmaking throughout Africa. Every aspect of African contact with and contribution to cinematic practices receives attention: British colonial cinema; the thematic and stylistic diversity of the pioneering 'francophone' films; the effects of television on the motion picture industry; and patterns of television documentary filmmaking in 'anglophone' regions. Ukadike gives special attention to the growth of independent production in Ghana and Nigeria, the unique Yoruba theater-film tradition, and the militant liberationist tendencies of 'lusophone' filmmakers. He offers a lucid discussion of oral tradition as a creative matrix and the relationship between cinema and other forms of popular culture. And, by contrasting 'new' African films with those based on the traditional paradigm, he explores the trends emerging from the eighties and nineties.
Clearly written and accessible to specialist and general reader alike, "Black African Cinema's" analysis of key films and issues - the most comprehensive in English - is unique. The book's pan-Africanist vision heralds important new strategies for appraising a cinema that increasingly attracts the attention of film students and Africanists.
N. Frank Ukadike teaches in the Department of Communication and in the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
