Author: Barlet, Olivier
Title: African Cinemas : Decolonizing the Gaze
Description: London / New York, Zed Books, (2000). orig. boards. xi,315 pp,, 24x15cm, Some light page-edge soil.. Textual photo illustrations.. Small [1cm] tear to top spine edge. Light page-edge bump. Good. ¶ Contents: The Origin, Akin to a Passage: Human Beings, Not Ants!; Decolonizing Thought; 'Proverbs Were Flesh & Blood': The Reference to the Past; Closing Your Eyes; Opening Up the Cracks in Identity; An Openness of Approach; At the Wellsprings of Narration: Back Humours; 'Men Die But Words Remain': At the Origin of Narration, Orality; 'If Your Song Is No Improvement On Silence, Keep Quiet!"; Speaking Your Own Language; Towards a Criticism Based on the Need to Exist; Black Prospects: 'He Who Wants Honey Has the Courage to Confront the Bees': The Difficulty of Making Films; The African Audience is Anything but Homogenous; A Fickle Audience in the Northern Hemisphere; 'When You've Got Meat to Cook, You go & Find Someone with Fire': The Logics of Western Aid; Television Strategies; Conclusion; Appendix: Where to See Black African Films.

Keywords: African Ethnology, Africa, Cinematography, Film Criticism, Cultural Politics, Critical Theory, Television, Cinema History,