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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | African Cinema and (Re)Education: Using Recent African Feature Films |
Author: | Petty, Sheila |
Year: | 1992 |
Periodical: | Issue |
Volume: | 20 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | Summer |
Pages: | 26-30 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa Mali Burkina Faso |
Subjects: | audiovisual instruction cinema Architecture and the Arts |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1166988 |
Abstract: | The use of African films in the classroom is by no means restricted to teachers of cinema studies. Students of history, philosophy, anthropology, etc., can also benefit from screening African films when they are used to develop a critical awareness of established, discipline-based methods of observing and interpreting texts. Before considering specific film texts, it is essential to provide the students with some background on the history and practice of representation in African film and the problems involved in the filmmaking process itself. The author discusses three African films teachers could use in the classroom: 'Zan Boko', by Gaston Kaboré (Burkina Faso, 1988), which provides an illustration of change and shifting identities; 'Finzan', by Cheick Oumar Sissoko (Mali, 1990); and 'Ta Donna', by Adamo Drabo (Mali, 1991). Ref. |