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Africa Shoots Back: Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African Film

by Melissa Thackway

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Filmmakers in sub-Saharan francophone Africa have been using cinema since independence in the 1960s to challenge existing Western stereotypes of the continent. In Africa Shoots Back, Melissa Thackway illustrates how directors working in a postcolonial context have produced these alternative depictions of African identity. She shows how memory and history have become central themes in African films and how local cultural forms have been integrated into the film medium. Interviews with eight African filmmakers enlarge Thackway's account of the new cinematic codes and previously silenced voices given life in African film.… (more)
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Non a caso in copertina di Africa Shoots Back c’è un’immagine di Taafe Fanga, il film del maliano Adama Drabo che inverte i ruoli di uomini e donne. Melissa Thackway, infatti, dedica uno dei suoi capitoli alla figura femminile, che giudica essere uno dei temi preminenti della cinematografia africana “francofona” (d’obbligo le virgolette). Anche quando i registi sono maschi (nella stragrande maggioranza dei casi), «hanno prodotto delle interessanti e progressiste rappresentazioni di donne africane», a differenza di quei «passivi oggetti del desiderio» continuamente riproposti nella cinematografia occidentale dominante. Un altro capitolo da segnalare è quello sul rapporto tra oralità e stilistica, Screen Griots, caratteristico di molti film. Chiudono il libro le interviste a otto registi, bilingui inglese/francese. ( )
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Filmmakers in sub-Saharan francophone Africa have been using cinema since independence in the 1960s to challenge existing Western stereotypes of the continent. In Africa Shoots Back, Melissa Thackway illustrates how directors working in a postcolonial context have produced these alternative depictions of African identity. She shows how memory and history have become central themes in African films and how local cultural forms have been integrated into the film medium. Interviews with eight African filmmakers enlarge Thackway's account of the new cinematic codes and previously silenced voices given life in African film.

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