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African Cinema in a Global Age

African Cinema in a Global Age

Harrow, Kenneth W.

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Film StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032502517
ISBN13: 9781032502519
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 19 2023
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book traces the developments in African films that were made from the 1990s to the present within the evolving frame of what came to be called 'World Cinema' and, eventually, 'Global Cinema.'

Kenneth W. Harrow explores how, from the time video and then digital technologies were introduced in the 1990s, and then again, when streaming platforms assumed major roles in producing and distributing film between the 2010s and 2020s, African cinema underwent enormous changes. He highlights how the introduction of the continent's first successful commercial cinema, Nollywood, shifted the focus from engagé films, with social or political messages, to entertainment movies, but also auteur cinema. Harrow explores how this transformation liberated African filmmakers and resulted in an incredible, enduring flow of creative, inventive, and thoughtful filmmaking. This book presents a number of those critical films that mark that trajectory, projecting a new sense of African film spaces and temporalities, while also highlighting how African films continue to find independent pathways.

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