Mar 28, 2024  
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Course Catalog 2023-2024
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CINE 243 - Introduction to African Cinema

FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course provides a general introduction to the histories and theories of filmmaking in sub-Saharan Africa. With a continent as large and diverse as Africa, we cannot cover the filmmaking practices of every region, but through the close analysis of the form and content of influential African films, historical texts, statements by African filmmakers, and the theoretical arguments of African media scholars, we will begin to understand what is at stake–politically and socially–in the development, distribution, and use of moving images on the continent. In this course we will consider African filmmakers’ cinematic responses to colonial images, from the social realism of Ousmane Sembe to the avant-gardism of Djibril Diop Mamby and Akosua Adoma Owusu. We will also look at how funding, piracy and distribution, and technological change have impacted the production and reception of African popular cinema.



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