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Title:Special issue: Cinema in East Africa
Editor:Bisschoff, LizelleISNI
Year:2015
Periodical:Journal of African Cinemas (ISSN 1754-923X)
Volume:7
Issue:2
Pages:71-201
Language:English
City of publisher:Bristol
Publisher:Intellect
Geographic terms:Kenya
Tanzania
Ethiopia
Subjects:cinema
films
film history
External link:http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jac/2015/00000007/00000002
Abstract:This special issue explores the ways in which the emerging local film industries in East Africa are overcoming the burden of colonial and foreign film-making in order to establish film-making practices with distinct approaches and characteristics. The topics, films, and theoretical and analytical approaches included are diverse and wide ranging, despite the limited geographical scope. Contents: Cinema in East Africa: introduction (Lizelle Bisschoff); A feminist approach to contemporary female Kenyan cinema: women and nation in 'From a Whisper' (Kahiu, 2008) and 'Something Necessary' (Kibinge, 2013) (Clara Giruzzi); Kenya's Riverwood: market structure, power relations, and future outlooks (Ann Overbergh); Film production as a 'mirror of society': the history of a video film art group in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Claudia Böhme); Innovation and its obstacles in Tanzania's Bongowood (Ann Overbergh); The Slum Film Festival in Nairobi: exploring cinematic representation from the urban margins (Federico Olivieri, Joshua Michael Wong); Screening Ethiopia: a preliminary study of the history and contemporary developments of film production in Ethiopia (Alessandro Jedlowski); Cinematographic techniques in three Kenyan films (Rachael Diang'a). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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