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African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics
Manthia DiawaraIn this book Manthia Diawara, a renowned scholar on Black cinema, literature, and art brings readers up to date on the exciting changes taking place behind and in front of African cameras.
We Won't Budge: An African Exile in the World
Manthia DiawaraThe reader leaves this haunting story exhilarated by Diawara's personal triumph and humbled by his gentle grace and humanity.
African Cinema: Politics & Culture
Manthia DiawaraThe book traces the growth of African cinema through the efforts of pioneer filmmakers such as Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Oumarou Ganda, Jean-René Débrix, Jean Rouch, and Ousmane Sembène, the Pan-African Filmmakers' Organization (FEPACI), ...
L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema
PreviewNtongela Masilela, “The Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers,” in Black American Cinema, ed. Manthia Diawara (London: Routledge, 1993), 107–17. See also Ntongela Masilela, “Women Directors of the Los Angeles School,” in Black ...
In Search of Africa
Manthia DiawaraSékou Touré's dependence on a Sundiata-like heroism reflects both the limitations of his kind of modern African socialism, and his popularity in West Africa. Salif Kéita's "Mandjou" In a recent song by Salif Kéita entitled "Mandjou," Sékou Touré ...
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