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Article: Focus on African films.(Book Review)
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- African Arts
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- September 22, 2005
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Focus on African Films
Edited by Francoise Pfaff
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 327 pp., 30 b/w photos, bibliographies, index. $65 hardcover.
Francoise Pfaff's previous work includes Twenty-five Black African Filmmakers (1984) and The Cinema of Ousmane Sembene: Pioneer of African Film (1984), as well as numerous articles on African films and filmmakers. In her latest contribution to cinema studies, Pfaff offers an edited volume of essays by equally well-known scholars, as well as a few newcomers (and even a few visitors) to the field. The collection offers a number of valuable essays treating newer or less-frequently-studied films ...