Reel resistance the cinema of Jean-Marie Teno - Thackway, Melissa 1969-; Téno, Jean-Marie 1954- (James Currey, 2023)
Part I. 1. Documentary filmmaking in Africa: an introduction – Defining documentary – Documentary in Africa – Early African cinema and the documentary – Early African documentary practices – Into the Eighties ... – 2. Critical insights: reading the films of Jean-Marie Teno – A film style: traits and evolutions – Committed cinema: a poetics of resistance – The Cinematic 'I': subjectivity, voice – (Hi)stories, memory: decolonial readings of the past – Reconstructing archaeologies of memory – Decolonizing the Archive – Spanning borders in one stride: transnationality, circulations and exile – Conslucsion: for a decolonial aesthetics ? – Part II. In Conversation – In the Beginning ... – First Encounters, first steps – First films – Filming the real – Documentary practice – Experimentations, Assemblages – The Cinematic I – Journey – (Hi)stories, memory – Decolonizing the 'Colonial Library' – Endogenizing Film language – Transmission – Circulations – Part III. Appendices – Appendix 1 The writings of Jean-Marie Teno – Freedom: the power to say no – Writing on walls: the future of African documentary cinema – Filming alone (extracts) – Appendix 2 The films of Jean-Marie Teno – (List of works, their technical details & synopses)