Women's Representation in African Cinema: A Study of the Postcolonial Films of Burkina Faso and Senegal

Okon, Patrick E. (2016) Women's Representation in African Cinema: A Study of the Postcolonial Films of Burkina Faso and Senegal. 1 . Livingproof, Ota, Ogun State. ISBN 97897859452021

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Abstract

This book explores, through visual analytical processes, the images of African women, within the context of their social roles, in some postcolonial indigenous films of francophone West Africa. The book also seeks to determine the factors that would have influenced the production of those images. The films in focus are The Night of Truth (Fanta Nacro, 2004), Samba Traore (Idrissa Ouedraogo, 1992), Madam Broutte (Moussa Absa, 2002), and Faat Kine (Ousmane Sembene, 2000). The book will also attempt to understand how the involvement of women in filmmaking has influenced their male counterparts to refocus their cameras and redefine their female characters and, thus, bring about growth in African film practices. Lucy Fisher (1989) and Beatrice Mukola's notions of the "double theme" and "multiple narratives", as well as Mikhail Bakhtin's (1968) "carnival and carnivalesque", are used to aid interpretations. The book is part of a planned trilogy on a critical study of African indigenous films of the postcolonial era.

Item Type:	Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Women, representation, African cinema, indigenous, postcolonial, Burkina Faso, Senegal, film criticism series
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Art
Depositing User:	Dr. P. E. Okon
Date Deposited:	25 Aug 2017 21:37
Last Modified:	25 Aug 2017 21:37
URI:	http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/8743

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