African Cinema Politics and Culture [Paperback]

Manthia Diawara is quite simply the best critic (in any language) currently writing on African cinema. Robert Stam

Diawara has produced a useful history, a cogent analysis, and, in his arguments on how African cinema should develop, an undoubtedly controversial book. Studies in Popular Culture

This is a good, solid and reliable history of filmmaking on the African continent, beginning with colonial production and moving on to independent filmmaking... an important and welcome reference source. Classic Images

Diawara's work is comprehensive, based on rigorous research and sound analyses... it aptly illustrates the intricate correlations between politics, economics and culture. Black Film Review

In a relatively new field of historical film theory, African Cinema: Politics and Culture will become indispensable. The Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Vol. 1-3, 1996

Drawing on political science, economics, history, and cultural studies, Diawara provides an insiders account of the development and current status of African cinema. He discusses such issues as film production and distribution, and film aesthetics from the colonial period to the present.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION

I. ANGLOPHONE AFRICAN PRODUCTION
II. ZAIRIAN PRODUCTION
III. FRANCES CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FILM PRODUCTION IN AFRICA
IV. THE ARTIST AS THE LEADER OF THE REVOLUTION: THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERATION PANAFRICAINE DES CINEASTES
V. THE SITUATION OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL FILM PRODUCTION IN FRANCOPHONE AFRICA
VI. FIL PRODUCTION IN LUSOPHONE AFRICA: TOWARD THE KUXA KENEMA IN MOZAMBIQUE
VII. FIM DISTRIBUTION AND EXHIBITION IN FRANCOPHONE AFRICA
VIII. THE PRESENT SITUATION OF THE FILM INDUSTRY IN ANGLOPHONE AFRICA
IX. ARICAN CINEMA AND FESTIVALS; FESPACO
X. AFRICAN CINEMA TODAY

NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

MANTHIA DIAWARA is Professor of English and Associate Director of the CentlS4