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Author_Shelia Petty
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Popular Culture: Film
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- ISBN 9780275958015
- Weight: 284g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 19 Dec 1996
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene has often been referred to as a pioneer of the sub-Saharan African cinema. From Borom Sarret (1963) to Guelwaar (1992), Sembene has developed a political and aesthetic project that has deeply influenced the evolution of African filmmaking. This project, with its goal to create a new Africa free of the remnants of colonialist oppression, has subsequently become the objective of emerging generations of African filmmakers. In this book seven scholars explore Sembene's notion of a new Africa by examining the central issues of change, cultural alienation and economic dependence that infuse the director's cinematic and literary works.
In this book seven scholars explore Sembene's notion of a new Africa by examining the central issues of change, cultural alienation and economic dependence that infuse the director's cinematic and literary works.
SHEILA PETTY is Associate Professor of Film and Video at the University of Regina. She has written various articles and reviews on African cinema in such journals as Canadian Journal of Communication, Cineaction, Society for Visual Anthropology Review, Issue: A Journal of Opinion and Visions. She was a contributor to Films d'Afrique (1991), has curated several film and video exhibitions/installations, and is currently preparing a book and exhibition project on national identities in African, Brazilian and Quebec television serials.
