African diasporic cinema: aesthetics of reconstruction

"African Diasporic Cinema: Aesthetics of Reconstruction examines contemporary diasporic African films, explores the aesthetic strategies used by black diasporic filmmakers to express identity reconstruction processes after migration, and highlights their films' continuities with and distan...

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Main Author: Ricci, Daniela 1970- (Author)
Other Authors: Thackway, Melissa 1969- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: East Lansing Michigan State University Press [2020]
Series:African humanities and the arts
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Links:https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/fuberlin-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6201943
Summary:"African Diasporic Cinema: Aesthetics of Reconstruction examines contemporary diasporic African films, explores the aesthetic strategies used by black diasporic filmmakers to express identity reconstruction processes after migration, and highlights their films' continuities with and distances from foundational African films. The analyzed films (by Newton I. Aduaka, Sarah Bouyain, Haile Gerima, Alain Gomis, and Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda) reflect different personal and artistic paths and various visions between Africa and Europe or the United States"--
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis Seite 251-276
"Originally published in French under the title Cinémas des diaspora noires: esthétiques de la reconstruction, Copyright © 2016 L'Harmattan"
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 304 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781609176396