Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781907975516 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 234 str.

Lizelle Bisschoff; David Murphy

Opis

Until recently, the story of African film was marked by a series of truncated histories: many outstanding films from earlier decades were virtually inaccessible and thus often excluded from critical accounts. However, various conservation projects since the turn of the century have now begun to make many of these films available to critics and audiences in a way that was unimaginable just a decade ago. In this accessible and lively collection of essays, Lizelle Bisschoff and David Murphy draw together the best scholarship on the diverse and fragmented strands of African film history. Their volume recovers over 30 'lost' African classic films from 1920-2010 in order to provide a more complex genealogy and begin to trace new histories of African filmmaking: from 1920s Egyptian melodramas through lost gems from apartheid South Africa to neglected works by great Francophone directors, the full diversity of African cinema will be revealed.

Spis treści

Introduction: Revising the Classics: Opening Up the Archives of African Cinema Part I: Lost Histories 1924-69 1. The Birth of North African Cinema 2. Lost Classics' in Context: Film Production in South Africa 1920-1960 3. Francophone West African Cinema, 1955–1969: False starts and new beginnings Part II: North Africa 4. Forgotten Women, Lost Histories: Selma Baccar's Fatma 75 (1978) and Assia Djebar's La Nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua (1978) 5. Naked Nation: Youth, Masculinity, and the Coming Revolution in Man of Ashes (Nouri Bouzid, 1986) 6. Postcolonialism at Sea: The Tragic Ends of History in Badis (Mohamed A. Tazi, 1989) 7. Al Masir/Destiny (Youssef Chahine, 1997): 'a luta continua' Part III: South Africa 8. Jannie Totsiens (Jans Rautenbach, 1970): Of Love, Loss, and Lunacy 9. Boesman and Lena (Ross Devenish, 1973): The Politics of Place and Performance 10. The Stick (Darrell Roodt, 1987): A Mental State 11. Fools (Ramadan Suleman, 1997): or, the importance of being able to tell 'messy' stories at the 'wrong' time Part IV: Franchophone Africa 12. Toads and Cowboys: Tracing a Popular African Cinema in Moustapha Alassane's Le Retour d'un aventurier (1966) and Bon Voyage Sim (1966) 13. Soleil O (Med Hondo, 1969): They cannot represent themselves …’ 14. Badou Boy (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1970): Intertextuality, Gangster Movies, and the Language of African Film 15. Cinema and Nation-Building: Muna Moto (Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa, 1975) Part V: Anglophone West Africa 16. Aristotle's Plot (Jean-Pierre Bekolo, 1997): A refusal to 'find' African cinema? 17. Heritage Africa (Kwaw Ansah, 1983): A Cinema of Political Violence 18. A Nollywood Classic: Living in Bondage (Kenneth Nnebue, 1992/1993) 19. Lost in Music? Race, Culture, and Identity in Rage (Newton I. Aduaka, 2000) Part VI: Lusophone Africa 20. The Birth of Fiction: On Mueda, Memória e Massacre (Ruy Guerra, 1979) 21. Udju Azul di Yonta/The Blue Eyes of Yonta (Flora Gomes, 1992): Lost Dreams/Lost in Dreams? Part VII: East Africa 22. Harvest 3000 Years/Mïrt Sost Shi Amät (Haile Gerima, 1976): A Revolutionary Ethiopian Film 23. Women's Stories and Struggles in These Hands (Flora M'mbugu-Schelling, 1992)

O autorze

Lizelle Bisschoff