Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism

by Kenneth W. Harrow

Kenneth W. Harrow offers a new critical approach to African cinema--one that requires that we revisit the beginnings of African filmmaking and the critical responses to which they gave rise, and that we ask what limitations they might have contained, what price was paid for the approaches then taken, and whether we are still caught in those limitations today.

Using Zizek, Badiou, and a range of Lacanian and postmodern-based approaches, Harrow...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253219140
• ISBN13: 9780253219145
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"