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Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality (Contemporary Film and Television Series) - Hardcover
This is a study of the cinematic traditions and film practices in the black Diaspora. With contributions by film scholars, film critics, and film-makers from Europe, North America and the Third World, this diverse collection provides a critical reading of film-making in the black Diaspora that challenges the assumptions of colonialist and ethnocentrist discourses about Third World, Hollywood and European cinemas. The book examines the impact on film-making of Western culture, capitalist production and distribution methods, and colonialism and the continuing neo-colonial status of the people and countries in which film-making is practiced. Organised in three parts, the study first explores cinema in the black Diaspora along cultural and political lines, analysing the works of a radical and aesthetically alternative cinema. The book proceeds to group black cinemas by geographical sites, including Africa, the Caribbean and South America, Europe, and North America, to provide global context for comparative and case study analyses. Finally, three important manifestoes document the political and economic concerns and counter-hegemonic institutional organising efforts of black and Third World film-makers from the 1970s to the early 1990s. "Cinemas of the Black Diaspora" should serve as a valuable basic reference and research tool for the study of world cinema. While celebrating the diversity, innovativeness, and fecundity of film-making in different regions of the world, this important collection also explicates the historical importance of film-making as a cultural form and political practice.
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This is a study of the cinematic traditions and film practices in the black Diaspora.
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This volume provides a global survey of the plurality of cinematic traditions and film practices in the black diaspora. It revisits and elaborates several of the themes addressed in the anthology Black Frames: Critical Perspectives on Black Independent Cinema, edited by Mbye B. Cham and Claire Andrae-Watkins.
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- PublisherWayne State Univ Pr
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0814325874
- ISBN 13 9780814325872
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages522
- EditorMichael T. Martin
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