African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara
Roy Armes
Abstract
This book is a study linking filmmaking in the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) with that in francophone West Africa and examining the factors (including Islam and the involvement of African and French governments) which have shaped post-independence production. The main focus is the development over forty years of two main traditions of African filmmaking: a social realist strand examining the nature of postcolonial society; and a more experimental approach where emphasis is placed on new stylistic patterns able to embrace history, myth, and magic. The work of younger filmmakers born s ... More
Keywords: African filmmaking, Maghreb, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, francophone West Africa, Islam, post-independence production, social realist, postcolonial society
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2006 | Print ISBN-13: 9780748621231 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: September 2012 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748621231.001.0001 |
