Highlighting the challenges faced by a nascent national cinema with limited resources, Passion of the Reel provides an in-depth analysis of the output of the Cameroonian film industry. Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe shows that, far from an empty receptacle for colonial legacies, Cameroon and Africa must move beyond their colonial legacies to focus on indigenous productions of meaning informed by traditional wisdom and ordinary Cameroonian life experience. Tchouaffes analysis sets the stage for a film-driven exploration of postcolonialism, social construction and modernization.
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Weight: 572g
Dimensions: 178 x 229mm
Publication Date: 01 Jul 2014
Publisher: Intellect Books
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781841505640
About Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe
JEAN OLIVIER TCHOUAFFE is a visiting Assistant Professor at Southwestern University in Georgetown TX. He teaches classes on Communication and Film Studies. He is currently working on a book on Cameroonian cinema and grassroots democratic activism. Besides many book chapters his other works have also appeared in the Journal of Applied Semiotics POV Online Journal of Contemporary Thought The Journal of African Cinemas PostAmble Journal and in The International Encyclopedia of Communication. SHERI MALMAN joined the publishing industry more than twenty years ago and she spent several years as a regional sales manager and the Religion Marketing Manager for Publishers Weekly. She now divides her time between teaching English composition at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington editing a variety of both academic and popular projects and coaching writers.