21F 853 African Cinemas: Selected Bibliography
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NOTE: this bibliography lists major works only. Bibliographical details
of coursepack readings are given in the coursepack. For more detailed
bibliographies of individual directors, articles, etc., see the bibliographies
of primary texts and reference works listed below.
African Film
- Ukadike, Nwachukwu Frank. 1994. Black African Cinema. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Diawara, Manthia. 1992. African Cinema: Politics and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- Pfaff, Françoise. 1984. The Cinema of Ousmane Sembene. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
- Pfaff, Françoise. 1988. Twenty-five Black African Filmmakers: a Critical Study with Filmography and Bio-Biography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
African-American and African Diaspora Film
- Diawara, Manthia, ed. 1993. Black American Cinema: Aesthetics and Spectatorship. New York: Routledge.
- Martin, Michael, ed. 1995. Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, Oppositionality. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
Third Cinema
- Armes, Roy. 1987. Third World Film Making and the West. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Gabriel, Teshome H. 1982. Third Cinema in the Third World: The Aesthetics of Liberation. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press.
- Pines, Jim, and Paul Willemin, eds. 1989. Questions of Third Cinema. London: BFI.
Africa
- "Africa." 1994. Granta 48. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
- Harden, Blaine. 1990. Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
- Oliver and Farge. A Brief History of Africa.
Recommended
- Black Public Sphere Collective, ed. 1995. The Black Public Sphere. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Wallace, Michele, and Gina Dent. 1992. Black Popular Culture. Seattle: Bay Press.
Journals and Magazines on African Film and Africa
- Ecrans d'Afrique [bilingual French/English]
- Jeune Afrique [French]
- Africa in Focus [BBC publication]
- Sight and Sound [British film magazine: often has articles on African film]