Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora

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Analyzing art house films from the African continent and the African diaspora, this book showcases a new generation of auteurs with African origins from political, aesthetic, and spectatorship perspectives.
* Focuses on art house cinema and discusses commercial African cinema
* Enlarges our understanding of African film to include thematic and aesthetic influence
* Highlights aesthetic and political aspects including racial identity, women’s issues, and diaspora
* Heavily illustrated with over 90 film stills
* Features selected stills integral to the filmic analysis in full color
* Moves beyond Western-oriented analytical paradigms