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| Title: | Africa's lost classics: new histories of African cinema |
| Editors: | Bisschoff, Lizelle Murphy, David |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Pages: | 217 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Moving image |
| City of publisher: | London |
| Publisher: | Legenda |
| ISBN: | 1907975519; 9781907975516 |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | cinema film history |
| Abstract: | Until recently, the story of African film was marked by a series of truncated histories: many outstanding films from earlier decades were virtually inaccessible and thus often excluded from critical accounts. However, various conservation projects since the turn of the century have now begun to make many of these films available to critics and audiences. This collection of essays, introduced by editors Lizelle Bisschoff and David Murphy, recovers over 30 'lost' African classic films from 1920-2000 in order to provide a more complex genealogy and begin to trace new histories of African filmmaking: from 1920s Egyptian melodramas through lost gems from apartheid South Africa to neglected works by great Francophone directors. The book is divided into seven parts: I. Lost histories 1924-1969; II. North Africa; III. South Africa; IV. Francophone Africa; V. Anglophone Africa; VI. Lusophone Africa; VII. East Africa. It has contibutions by: Jamal Bahmad, Lizelle Bisschoff, Lindiwe Dovey, Alexander Fisher, Jacqueline Maingard, Lesley Marx, Ouissal Mejri, David Murphy, Sada Niang, Onookome Okome, Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk, Raquel Schefer, Alexie Tcheuyap, Michael W. Thomas, Stefanie van de Peer, Patrick Williams. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
