Other Library resource(s)
Library of African cinema by Call Number: Streaming video - there are other formats in the Jones Media CenterFilms from Africa made by Africans offer restorative images and a new film language. The beautiful and sometimes challenging films in this collection not only showcase the works of master filmmakers but also innovative new talents who are embracing video technology. To see Africa through African eyes will break stereotypes and enlighten viewers about life in Africa.
African cinema from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199791286The term “African cinema” generally refers to film production in Sub-Saharan African countries. Compared to the other national cinemas in the world, African cinema can be said to be a recent phenomenon that for many countries within this region only began to materialize after independence in the 1960s. ...
Internet resource(s)
- Federation Africaine de la Critique CinematographiqueThe aim of the federation is to stimulate and promote critical writing in Africa, to obtain greater recognition for African criticism within film criticism internationally, to provide training through meetings between critics, to encourage enthusiasm in film, and to provide information on and support for African productions through debate and reflection.
Searching the online catalog
You can use the subject heading below to find resources in the online catalog. The call number range is also included. Please note: these are not the only call number ranges, but they have the majority of items.
- motion pictures africa french speakingCall number range PN 1993.5 .A35 on Baker Level 4.
- motion pictures AND francophone africaThis is a keyword search.
- motion pictures africaCall number range PN 1993.5 .A35 on Baker Stacks Level 4.
Introductory reading(s)
African cinema and Europe: close-up on Burkina Faso by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .B84 H64 2004ISBN: 9788883980312The core of this work is an analysis of cinematic representation in relation to a politics of production and to a received body of knowledge on Africa. It explores the process of transnational, translational and negotiated identities within differentiated structures of power and hierarchy in a global system. Burkinabè fiction film is used to consider an asymmetric relationship between France and Burkina Faso and by extension between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. ...
African francophone cinema by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A35 D56 2004ISBN: 9781931948197The major contemporary African Francophone filmmakers and their films are treated here. The book discusses a certain number of themes as they are featured in African Francophone Cinema. The interface between cinematographic language and image is also studied. This study reflects the vibrancy of the emergent field of African cinema.
Africa shoots back: alternative perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African film by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A35 T48 2003ISBN: 9780253343499Filmmakers 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. ...
Cinema-monde: decentred perspectives on global filmmaking in French by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .F74 C56 2018ISBN: 9781474414982The first book devoted to a wide-ranging study of developments in global French-language cinema, from Quebec to Mauritania and from Belgium to Cambodia, Cinéma-monde picks up on the lively scholarly debates generated by the related topic of littérature-monde. ...
Francophone African cinema: history, culture, politics and theory by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A35 F75 2009ISBN: 9780786439621Setting the stage for a critical encounter between Francophone African cinema and Continental European critical theory, this book offers a transnational and interdisciplinary analysis of 16 Francophone African films, including Bassek Ba Kobhio's The Great White Man of Lambarene, Cheick Oumar Sissoko's Guimba the Tyrant, and Amadou Seck's Saaraba. The author invites readers to study these films in the context of transnational conversations between African filmmakers and the conventional theorists whose works are more readily available in academia. ...
Selected book titles
African film: re-imagining a continent by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A35 G77 2003ISBN: 9780253216434In African Film: Re-imagining a Continent, Josef Gugler provides an introduction to African cinema through an analysis of 15 films made by African filmmakers. These directors set out to re-image Africa; their films offer Western viewers the opportunity to re-imagine the continent and its people. ...Afriques 50: singularités d'un cinéma pluriel by
Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A35 A39 2005ISBN: 9782747582056Marginalité et errance dans la littérature et le cinéma africains francophones: les carrefours mobiles by
Call Number: Baker-Berry PQ 3980.5 .K36 2004ISBN: 9782747564632
Viewing African cinema in the twenty-first century: art films and the Nollywood video revolution by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780821443507African cinema in the 1960s originated mainly from Francophone countries. It resembled the art cinema of contemporary Europe and relied on support from the French film industry and the French state. Beginning in 1969 the biennial Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), held in Burkina Faso, became the major showcase for these films. But since the early 1990s, a new phenomenon has come to dominate the African cinema world: mass-marketed films shot on less expensive video cameras. These "Nollywood" films, so named because many originate in southern Nigeria, are a thriving industry dominating the world of African cinema. Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century is the first book to bring together a set of essays offering a comparison of these two main African cinema modes. ...
Finding journal articles
You can search a variety of publications to find articles on French-speaking African cinema. Our collection does not have journals that cover French-speaking African cinema exclusively. You can use Film & Television Literature Index to find articles or use the search box at the top of the page.
Film & television literature index by Call Number: Electronic resourceYou can use this citation index to find articles on French speaking African film.
MLA international bibliography by Call Number: Electronic resourceMLA International Bibliography indexes journal articles, books and dissertations. Coverage includes literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
Screen studies collection by Call Number: Electronic resourceA comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed filmographies. This collection includes the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute (AFI) and the British Film Institute.
The web of science citation databases by Call Number: Electronic resourceThe online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.
Selected movie titles
Find more francophone African film in the library's collections.
Black and white in color by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #6137ISBN: 9780780026483A French colony in Africa's Ivory Coast discovers months after the fact that World War I has begun. Spurred on by a capricious patriotism, they figure they'll do their part by attacking the German colony up the river. After all, they have six rifles, and one of them is an automatic. So off to war they march -- or rather, their servants do, carrying the white folk on palanquins. They soon stop for a lovely picnic. When machine gun fire is heard in the distance, they run back to the safety of the colony. All goes well until a young geographer becomes the key strategist for the French, working with the local tribal chief and turning the old colonial social hierarchy on its head.
Camp de Thiaroye by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #7837ISBN: 9781567304862After defending France, a group of black soldiers are placed in a transit camp before returning home. As their stay lengthens, tensions rise until a petty dispute turns into full-scale rebellion.
Coup de torchon by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #5161ISBN: 9780780023314After Lucien Cordier, the only police officer in a small African village, is ridiculed by the local pimp, cheated on by his wife, and suffers his mistresses being beaten, he begins to get rid of the evil ones in his life.
Daresalam = Let there be peaceCall Number: Streaming videoThis is a timeless story of two childhood friends turned into political foes personalizes the terrible costs of internecine strife. Daresalam is not only director Issa Serge Coelo's first feature but one of the first feature films from Chad.
La nuit de la verité = The night of truth by Call Number: Jones Media DVD # 5272ISBN: 720229912624In an unspecified country in Africa, after ten years of bloody war, the Nayaks, the President's ethnic group, and the Bonandes, rebels supporting Colonel Theo, come together to celebrate the peace agreement. But the reconciliation festivities are overshadowed by the terrible barbarities that have been committed on both sides.
Le Havre by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #15216ISBN: 9781604656060Marcel Marx, an old bohemian living in the French harbor city of Le Havre, stands up for a young African refugee when officials begin to pursue the boy for deportation.
Miel et cendres by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #4465ISBN: 9781892649881Three women in contemporary North African Islamic country are caught between tradition and modernity as they try to take control of their lives. Youngest of the women is twenty-something Leila who's love for Hassan must be kept hidden from her strict father. A successful doctor in her mid' 40's, Naima studied medicine in Moscow where her hopes for settling with her Russian love were crushed by pressure from her family to enter an arranged marriage. Amina suffers from constant abuse by her husband. The lives of the three women weave together in unexpected ways portraying a society where patriarchal authority gets in the way of love, sexual expression and individual freedom.
White material by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #13265Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family's crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. A gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind.
Keeping up with the journal literature
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