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A Call to Action The Films of Ousmane Sembene
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Sheila Petty
Book Code: GM0279
ISBN: 0-313-30279-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30279-4
208 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 12/30/1996
List Price: $131.95
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback
Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4
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Series Title: Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
Series Number: 60
Reviews:
  • Petty has put together an interesting and useful collection of essays about Africa's preeminent filmmaker. All of the essays are good....An engaging and interesting collection, suitable for all academic and public libraries.
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Description: Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene has often been referred to as a pioneer of the sub-Saharan African cinema. From Borom Sarret (1963) to Guelwaar (1992), Sembene has developed a political and aesthetic project that has deeply influenced the evolution of African filmmaking. This project, with its goal to create a new "Africa" free of the remnants of colonialist oppression, has subsequently become the objective of emerging generations of African filmmakers. In this book seven scholars explore Sembene's notion of a new Africa by examining the central issues of change, cultural alienation and economic dependence that infuse the director's cinematic and literary works.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by Sheila Petty
  • The Context of the African Filmmaker by Roy Armes
  • Nation, Inter-nation and Narration in Ousmane Sembene's Films by Philip Rosen
  • Orality in the Films of Ousmane Sembene by Sada Niang
  • Towards a Changing Africa: Women's Roles in the Films of Ousmane Sembene by Sheila Petty
  • Ontological Discourse in Ousmane Sembene's Cinema by Frederick Ivor Case
  • The Creation of an African Film Aesthetic/Language for Representing African Realities by Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike
  • Language Use and Representation of the Senegalese Subject in the Written Work of Ousmane Sembene by Beth Willey
  • Filmography
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 96-28760
LCC Class: PN1998
Dewey Class: 791
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