Postcolonial African Cinema: Ten Directors

by Patrick Williams and David Murphy

Book Overview

This is the first introduction of its kind to an important cross-section of postcolonial African filmmakers from the 1950s to the present. Building on previous critical work in the field, this volume will bring together ideas from a range of disciplines - film studies, African cultural studies, and, in particular, postcolonial studies - in order to combine the in-depth analysis of individual films and bodies of work by individual directors with a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719072026
• ISBN13: 9780719072024
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 9.5"