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Teaching Aberrance: Cinema as a Site for African Feminism

Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: This article examines the influence of colonialist instructional cinema on modern African cinema production. The four films--Neria, Everyone’s Child,Wend Kuuni, and Taafe Fanga-- differ in national origin, thematic approaches, and cinematic technique, but they share in displaying an element of instructional cinema. The instructional nature of the films asserts the value of women in postcolonial African societies, who, in the space of the films as in real life, are the double-colonized subject
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1523480614
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