Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic

ISBN-13: 9780415425667 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Lizelle Bisschoff; Stefanie Van de Peer

Opis

Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic showcases the very prolific but often marginalised presence of women in African cinema, both on the screen and behind the camera.

Spis treści

1. Women in African Cinema: Histories and Theories  2. The Multiplicity of Female Identities: Embracing Plurality  3. Female Friendships in Film: Affinities, Affiliations and Activism  4. Women in Revolution and Revolutionary Cinema  5. Daughters and Their Mothers: Between Conflict and Acceptance  6. African Women's Bodies: Journeys into Womanhood  7. (Re)defining Female Sexuality through Film  8. Spiritual Pathways to Emancipation 

O autorze

Lizelle Bisschoff is a researcher and curator of African film and founder of the Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival, an annual African film festival taking place in Scotland. She is currently Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow.

Stefanie Van de Peer is researcher and programmer of African and Arab cinema. Her award-winning collection Animation in the Middle East came out in 2017. She programmes for film festivals worldwide and works for Africa in Motion. She is Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and Lecturer in Film and Media at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh.