Table of Contents
I. Colonial Formations
Colonial Cinema
- Roy Armes
The Colonialist Regime of Representation, 1945-1960
- James E. Genova
Politics of Cultural Conversion in Colonialist African Cinema
- Femi Okiremuete Shaka
The African Bioscope - Movie-House Culture in British Colonial Africa
- James Burns
From the Inside: The Colonial Film Unit and the Beginning of the End
- Tom Rice
The Independence Generation: Film Culture and the Anti-Colonial Struggle in the 1950s
- Odile Goerg
II. Constituting African Cinema
What is Cinema for Us?
- Med Hondo
A Cinema Fighting for Its Liberation
- Ferid Boughedir
Where Are the African Women Filmmakers?
- Haile Gerima
The FESPACI and Its Artistic Legacies
- Sada Niang
The Six Decades of African Film
- Olivier Barlet
Africa, The Last Cinema
- Clyde Taylor
The Pan-African Cinema Movement: Achievements, Misadventures, and Failures (1969-2020)
- Ferid Boughedir
III. Theorizing African Cinema
African Cinema(s): Definitions, Identity, and Theoretical Considerations
- Alexie Tcheuyap
Theorizing African Cinema: Contemporary African Cinematic Discourse and Its Discontents
- Esiaba Irobi
The Theoretical Construction of African Cinema
- Stephen A. Zacks
Toward a Critical Theory of Third World Films
- Teshome H. Gabriel
Africans Filming Africa: Guestioning Theories of an Authentic African Cinema
- David Murphy
Tradition/Modernity and the Discourse of African Cinema
- Jude Akudinobi
Toward a Theory of Orality in African Cinema
- Keyan G. Tomaselli, Arnold Shepperson, and Maureen Eke
Film and the Problem of Languages in Africa
- Paulin Soumanou Vieyra
In Defense of African Film Studies
- Boukary Sawadogo
IV. Articulations of African Cinema
Dossier 1: Key Dates in the History of African Cinema
- Curated by Olivier Barlet and Claude Forest
Dossier 2: Ousmane Sembene
- Curated by Sada Niang and Samba Gadjigo
Dossier 3: African Women in Cinema
- Curated by Beti Ellerson
The Taking of the Cinemateca Brasileira
- Darlene Sadlier