African Cinema: Politics & Culture

by Manthia Diawara

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025320707X
• ISBN13: 9780253207074
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A good historical text.

This book contains valuable information on the history of African film from colonial times to the present. It explains why film production in Africa is what it is today, from region to region. This is mainly a book on African film history, so reviews of films are not emphasized