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Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers

Niang, Sada, Gauch, Suzanne, Diop, El Hadji Moustapha, Martin, Florence, Crosta, Suzanne, Tchumkam, Herve, Petty, Sheila, Tcheuyap, Alexie, Thackway, Melissa, Veilleux, Felix

2023

Overview

Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers is groundbreaking edited collection which explores the contributions of Francophone African women to the field of documentary filmmaking. Rich in its scope and critical vision it constitutes a timely contribution to cutting-edge scholarly debates on African cinemas. Featuring 10 chapters from prominent film scholars, it explores the distinctive documentary work and contributions of Francophone African women filmmakers since the 1960s. It focuses documentaries by North African and Sub-Saharan women filmmakers, including the pioneering work of Safi Faye in Kaddu Beykat , Rama Thiaw's The Revolution Will Not be Televised , Katy Lena Ndiaye's Le Cercle des noyes and En attendant les hommes , Dalila Ennadre's Fama: Heroism Without Glory and Leila Kitani's Nos lieux interdits. Shunned from costly fictional- 35mm-filmmaking, Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers examines how these women engaged and experimented with documentary filmmaking in personal, evocative ways that countered the officially sanctioned, nationalist practice of show and teach/promote.

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Subject: Documentary films / Documentary films-Africa, French-speaking-History and criticism / Film & Video / Film Studies / History & Criticism / Human Rights / Motion picture producers and directors / Motion picture producers and directors-Africa, French-speaking / Peace & Conflict Studies / PERFORMING ARTS / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women motion picture producers and directors / Women motion picture producers and directors-Africa, French-speaking
• ISBN: 0253066522, 9780253066527, 9780253066558, 0253066557, 0253066549, 9780253066534, 9780253066541, 0253066530