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African Film: Re-Imagining a Continent
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African Studies Review
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December 1, 2004
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Josef Gugler. African Film: Re-Imagining a Continent. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. xiii + 202 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $59.95. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.
In this wide-ranging volume, Josef Gugler re-imagines Africa south of the Sahara through "comprehensive accounts" of seventeen feature films from around the continent that promote the "different perspective[s] African directors bring to bear on Africa" (9). Although he contends that the work is organized into "five conflicts," the films are actually divided into six thematic sections which range from "Recovering the African Past" to "Between the African Mass Market and International Recognition" (7). Covering a ...
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