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  • African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization

    Volume 2: FESPACO—Formation, Evolution, Challenges

    by Michael T. Martin, Gaston Jean-Marie Kaboré, Ardiouma Soma, Lindiwe Dovey, Manthia Diawara, Beti Ellerson, Sambolgo Bangre0, Dorothee Wenner1, M. Africanus Aveh2, Mahir Saul3, Mbye Cham4, Ousmane Sembene5, Wole Soyinka6, Aboubakar Sanogo7, Teresa Hoefert de Turegano8, Claire Andrade-Watkins9, Olivier Barlet0, Rod Stoneman1, Férid Boughedir2, Claire Diao3, Michel Amarger4, Mustapha Ouedgraogo5, Colin Dupré6, Sheila Petty7, Imruh Bakari8, June Givanni9, Rémi Abega0 ...
    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film.Volume Two of this landmark series on African cinema is devoted to the decolonizing mediation of the Pan African Film & Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), the most important, inclusive, and ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Educating Film-makers

    Past, Present and Future

    by Duncan Petrie, Rod Stoneman ...
    A timely consideration of both the history and the current challenges facing practice-based film training, Educating Film-Makers is the first book to examine the history, impact and significance of film education in Britain, Europe and the United States. Film schools, the authors show, have historically focused on the cultivation of the film-maker as a cultural activist, artist or intellectual – ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

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    Edited by Grace A Musila ...
    This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, producers, platforms, and the material, affective and discursive resources they circulate – are influential in shaping African realities. Collectively, the chapters assembled in ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Evil Paradises

    Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism

    Edited by Mike Davis, Daniel Bertrand Monk ...
    Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places—alternate realities being constructed as “utopias” in a capitalist era unfettered by unions and state regulation. These developments—in cities, deserts, and in the middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption and inequality surpass our worst nightmares. Although they read like ... Read more

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  • Creative Destruction

    How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    "Argued neatly . . . cultural products that [we] think of as indigenous owe their existence to the cultural exchange brought about by trade." — Wall Street JournalA Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. ... Read more

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  • The Rise of English

    Global Politics and the Power of Language

    by Rosemary Salomone ...
    A sweeping account of the global rise of English and the high-stakes politics of language Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca--its common tongue. The language of business, popular media, and international politics, English has become commodified for its economic value and increasingly detached from any particular nation. This meteoric "rise of English" ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Africa

    Edited by Maria Grosz-Ngaté, John H. Hanson, Patrick O'Meara ...
    "Much has changed in Africa and in African studies . . . but one constant has been the enduring excellence of the anthology Africa." — International Journal of African Historical StudiesSince the publication of the first edition in 1977, Africa has established itself as a leading resource for teaching, business, and scholarship. This fourth edition has been completely revised and focuses on the ... Read more

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  • A History of African Popular Culture

    by Karin Barber ...
    Series Book 11 - New Approaches to African History
    Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Movies and Money

    by David Puttnam ...
    From David Puttnam—producer of such modern film classics as Chariots of Fire, The Killing Fields, Midnight Express, and The Mission, and the only European to have run a major Hollywood studio—an insightful and provocative history that explains the personalities and events which shaped film's transformation from a technological curiosity into one of the world's most powerful cultural and economic ... Read more

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  • Contemporary African Art

    by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir ...
    Series series World of Art
    A revised edition of this seminal title, surveying the diverse, ever-evolving field of contemporary African art from the 1950s to today, illustrated in color throughout.Contemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and its diaspora. It is not characterized by one particular style, technique, or theme, but by a bricolage-like attitude ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Global Nollywood

    The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry

    Edited by Matthias Krings, Onookome Okome ...
    Series series African Expressive Cultures
    "Reveals in fascinating detail the wild popularity, controversies, and complaints provoked by this film form . . . shap[ing] the media landscape of Africa." —Brian Larkin, Barnard CollegeGlobal Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In fifteen lively essays, this volume traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the African continent ... Read more

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  • Necessary Noise

    Music, Film, and Charitable Imperialism in the East of Congo

    by Chérie Rivers Ndaliko ...
    Since 1997, the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has taken more than 6 million lives and shapes the daily existence of the nation's residents. While the DRC is often portrayed in international media as an unproductive failed state, the Congolese have turned increasingly to art-making to express their experience to external eyes. Author Chérie Rivers Ndaliko argues that ... Read more

    $33.29 USD