Ousmane Sembene's 'La Noire de ...': melancholia in photo, text, and film

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Title:	Ousmane Sembene's 'La Noire de ...': melancholia in photo, text, and film
Author:	Dima, Vlad
Year:	2014
Periodical:	Journal of African Cultural Studies (ISSN 1369-6815)
Volume:	26
Issue:	1
Pages:	56-68
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Senegal
Subjects:	short stories films posters
About person:	Sembène Ousmane (1923-2007)
External link:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13696815.2013.811069
Abstract:	This article explores Ousmane Sembene's short story 'La Noire de ...' (Black Girl) and its film version by using the poster for the film as the linking cog, and by analysing the various shapes melancholia takes across these mediums. Sembene's interior sets are often ornamented with posters that have a double meaning: what they signify within the space of the film, and what they mean within the larger social context of Senegal and West Africa in general. By focusing on the promotional, extra-diegetic poster one can trace a similar binary relationship in reverse. This original path leads to the study of melancholia, first within a wider historical context, and, second, within the confines of the relationship between the poster, the film, and the short story. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]