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Article: Black African Cinema.
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- Cineaste
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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With Black African Cinema, Frank Ukadike has written a big, comprehensive book, interspersed with a fine selection of photos, about a complex cinema which we get only 'art house' and museum glimpses of in the West. This valuable exploration of black African filmmaking comes at an influential, defining moment in the field. Overall, and perhaps most importantly, Ukadike's project challenges the popular, as well as intellectual, tendency to collapse the total cinema of black Africans into a monolithic, historically frozen, exotic view. Rather, Ukadike argues that we must recognize the diversity of black African cinema as a multi-cultural endeavor held together by a loose set ...