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Periodical issue | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Film in African literature today |
Editor: | Emenyonu, Ernest N. |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | African Literature Today (ISSN 0065-4000) |
Issue: | 28 |
Pages: | 158 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | cinema literature |
Abstract: | This issue of 'African Literature Today' examines the interface between film and literature in Africa from a variety of perspectives, including critiques of adaptations of African creative works into film, analysis of filmic structures in African dramatic literature, African writers as filmmakers, and the impact of the video film industry on literature and the reading culture in Africa. Contributions: Strategies for subverting post-colonial oppression: literature & cinema in early Sembene Ousmane (Kwawisi Tekpetey); From negritude to migritude? Moussa Sene Absa's 'Ainsi meurent les anges' (And so angels die) (MaryEllen Higgins); Laughing off apartheid: 'Drum' magazine & the political economy of laughter in the late apartheid film (Timothy Johns); The works of Jean-Marie Teno & Raoul Peck: restoring life to a fleeced continent (David M.M. Riep); Haile Gerima's pan-African 'Message to the grassroots': hearing Malcolm X in Amharic - or 'Harvest 3000 years' (Greg Thomas); The video film industry & its 'substitution' for literature & reading in Africa: a case of Nigeria's Nollywood (Ignatius Chukwumah & Raphael Obinna Amalaha); The portrayal of mothers-in-law in Nigerian movies: the good, the bad & and oh, so wicked! (Agbese Aje-Ori); Charting Nollywood's appeal locally & globally (Moradewun Adejunmobi); The rise of the video film industry & its projected social impact on Ghanaians (Africanus Aveh); Constructing identity & authenticity: the evolving Cameroon video film in English (Joyce B. Ashuntantang). [ASC Leiden abstract] |