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Title:Luso-African cinema: nation and cinema
Editor:Meleiro, AlessandraISNI
Year:2011
Periodical:Journal of African Cinemas (ISSN 1754-923X)
Volume:3
Issue:2
Pages:133-249
Language:English
Geographic terms:Portuguese-speaking Africa
Angola
Mozambique
Subjects:cinema
films
decolonization
national identity
Abstract:The six essays in this special issue present a pluralistic perspective on film-making in Portuguese-speaking African countries, notably Angola and Mozambique. The issue highlights the cultural and socioeconomic contexts of Luso-African cinema, especially from a period in African history when the issue of the intertwinement of 'nation and cinema' proved crucial. Articles: Cinema on the cultural front: film-making and the Mozambican revolution (Ros Gray); 'Kuxa Kanema': the rise and fall of an experimental documentary series in Mozambique (Maria Loftus); In the name of 'cinema action' and Third World: the intervention of foreign film-makers in Mozambican cinema in the 1970s and 1980s (Mahomed Bamba); Viewing the Angolan experience of war and peace through the filmic representation of Luanda in Maria Joăo Ganga's 'Na Cidade Vazia/Hollow City' (2004) and Zezé Gamboa's 'O Herói/The Hero' (2004) (Antônio Márcio da Silva); Rebuilding the Angolan body politic: global and local projections of identity and protest in 'O Herói/The Hero' (Zezé Gamboa, 2004) (Mark Sabine); Ambivalent transnationality: Luso-African co-productions after independence (1988-2010) (Carolin Overhoff Ferreira). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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