African Cinema: Volume 2: FESPACO—Formation, Evolution, Challenges (Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora)

By: Ardiouma Soma and Michael T. Martin and Gaston Jean-Marie Kaboré and Lindiwe Dovey and Manthia Diawara and Beti Ellerson and Sambolgo Bangre and Dorothee Wenner and M. Africanus Aveh and Mahir Saul and Mbye Cham and Ousmane Sembene and Wole Soyinka and Aboubakar Sanogo and Teresa Hoefert de Turegano and Claire Andrade-Watkins and Olivier Barlet and Rod Stoneman and Férid Boughedir and Claire Diao and Michel Amarger and Mustapha Ouedgraogo and Colin Dupré and Sheila Petty and Imruh Bakari and June Givanni and Rémi Abega

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Synopsis: Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film.Volume Two of this landmark series on African cinema is devoted to the decolonizing mediation of the Pan African Film & Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), the most important, inclusive, and consequential cinematic convocation of its kind in the world. Since its creation in 1969, FESPACO's mission is, in principle, remarkably unchanged: to unapologetically recover, chronicle, affirm, and reconstitute the representation of the African continent and its global diasporas of people, thereby enunciating in the cinematic, all manner of Pan-African identity, experience, and the futurity of the Black World. This volume features historically significant and commissioned essays, commentaries, conversations, dossiers, and programmatic statements and manifestos that mark and elaborate the key moments in the evolution of FESPACO over the span of the past five decades.