12. African Film Resources
Currently received Periodicals:
FESPACO news. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: FESPACO.
Frequency notes: Daily (during the festival)
Language note: English and French.
FESPACO newsletter. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: FESPACO, [1994-
Africultures. Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, 1997-
Note: Each issue also has a distinctive title, as in:
Cinémas mémoire, 09 (1998)
Masa, Fespaco. Nouvelles créations africaines, 18 (1999)
Acteurs noirs, 27 (2000)
La geste musicale dans les cinémas noirs, 37 (2001)
Cinéma: L'exception africaine, 45 (2002)
Islam, croyances et négritude dans les cinémas d'Afrique, 47 (2002)
Journal Articles : [Harvard PIN access only]
Santiague, Lilia. “Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism”. Africa Today, Summer 2009: vol. 55, Issue 3. P. 125-126.
Yewah, Emmanuel. "Cinema and social discourse in Cameroon". Research in African Literatures, Fall 2007, Vol. 38 Issue 3, p. 199-201.
Online & Digital Resources:
Africa film & TV. Full text available. Compiled and produced by Z Promotions. Harare, Zimbabwe: Z Promotions. 1993 Harvard PIN access only
The Center for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema - "provides a space for study and research of myriad topics relating to African women in cinema".
Oloruntoba, Bunmi John. Constructing a postcolonial surrealist framework for West African cinema: The cinemas of Jean Rouch and Djibril Diop Mambety. Diss. Regent University, 2008. Dissertations & Theses: Full Text, ProQuest. Harvard PIN access only
Print Resources:
Alloo, Fatma. (Ed.) (2007). 10 years of ZIFF. Zanzibar: Gallery Publications, in collaboration with Zanzibar International Film Festival (Festival of the Dhow Countries).
Azodo, A.U. & Eke, M.N. (Eds.) (2007). Gender and sexuality in African literature and film. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.
Bachy, V. (1987). Pour une histoire du cinéma africain. Bruxelles, Belgique: OCIC.
Bakari, I. & Cham, M.B. (1996). African experiences of cinema. London: BFI Publishing.
Balseiro, I. & Masilela, N. (2003). To change reels: film and culture in South Africa. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press.
Barlet, O. (2000). African cinemas: decolonizing the gaze. (C. Turner, Trans.) London; New York: Zed Books.
Barrot, P. (2005). Nollywood: le phénomène vidéo au Nigeria. Paris: Harmattan.
Barrot, P., et al. (Eds.). (2008). Nollywood: the video phenomenon in Nigeria. Oxford: James Currey; Ibadan, Nigeria: HEBN; Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press.
B'beri, B.E. (2006). Mapping alternative expressions of blackness in cinema: a horizontal labyrinth of transgeographical practices of identity. Bayreuth [Germany]: Thielmann & Breitinger.
Bever, L. van. (1952). Le cinéma pour Africains. Préf. par L. Piron. [2. ed.] Bruxelles, Campenhout.
Bonetti, M. & Reddy, P. (Eds.). (2003). Through African eyes: dialogues with the directors. New York, NY: African Film Festival.
Botha, M. (2007). Marginal lives & painful pasts: South African cinema after apartheid. Parklands: Genugtig!.
Boughedir, F. (1992). African cinema from A to Z. [Le cinéma africain de A à Z.] (D. A. Woodford, Trans.) Brussels, Belgium: OCIC.
Brahimi, D. (1997). Cinémas d'Afrique francophone et du Maghreb. Paris: Nathan.
Bickford-Smith, V. & Mendelsohn, R. (Eds.) (2007). Black and white in colour: African history on screen. Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press; Cape Town: Double Storey.
Cameron, K.M. (1994). Africa on film: beyond black and white. New York: Continuum.
Cinémas africains d'aujourd'hui: guide des cinématographies d'Afrique. Paris: Karthala, 2007.
Coletti, M. (2001). Di diaspro e di corallo: l'immagine della donna nel cinema dell'Africa nera francofona. (1 ed.). Torino: Fondazione Scuola nazionale di cinema.
Dan-Inna, C., Diop, B.B. & Vieux Savané (2005). Portraits de journalistes et de cinéastes africaines. Dakar Ponty: Institut Panos Afrique de l'Ouest.
Diawara, M. (1992). African cinema: politics and culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Diop, S. (2004). African francophone cinema. New Orleans: University Press of the South.
Enahoro, A.U. (1997). Semiotics of an African cinema: Xala as a paradigm. Lagos, Nigeria: Cinemarts Communications Internationale.
See also:
Kakou, A. (1980). Xala, l'analyse du film. Abidjan: CERAV.; Xala. [Curse]. New York: New Yorker Films.;
(1974, 1976). Xala. [Wake, C., Trans.]. Westport, Conn.: L. Hill & Co.
Gabriel, T.H. (1982). Third cinema in the third world: the aesthetics of liberation. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press.
Gardies, A. (1989). Cinéma d'Afrique noire francophone: l'espace-miroir. Paris: L'Harmattan.
Gray, J. (1990). Blacks in film and television: a Pan-African bibliography of films, filmmakers, and performers. New York: Greenwood Press.
Gugler, J. (2003). African film: re-imagining a continent. Bloomington: Indiana University Press; Cape Town: David Philip; Oxford: James Currey.
Haffner, P. (1978). Essai sur les fondements du cinéma africain. Abidjan: Nouvelles editions africaines.
Harrow, K.W. (Ed.) (1999). African cinema: postcolonial and feminist readings. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.
Harrow, Kenneth W. (2007). Postcolonial African cinema: from political engagement to postmodernism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Reviewed by Lilia Santiague: “Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism” in Africa Today, Summer 2009: vol. 55, Issue 3. p. 125-126
Hoefert de Turégano, T. (2004). African cinema and Europe: close-up on Burkina Faso. Florence: European Press Academic Publishing.
Ilboudo, P.G. (1988). Le FESPACO, 1969-1989: les cinéastes africains et leurs œuvres. Ouagadougou: Editions La Mante.
Imbert, Henri-François. (2007). Samba Félix Ndiaye, cinéaste documentariste africain. Paris: Harmattan.
Kamba, S. (1992). Production cinématographique et parti unique: l'exemple du Congo. Paris: L'Harmattan.
Kane, M.D. (2004). Marginalité et errance dans la littérature et le cinéma africains francophones: les carrefours mobiles. Paris: Harmattan.
Larouche, M. (1991). Films d'Afrique. Montréal: Guernica.
Maingard, J. (2007). South African national cinema. London; New York: Routledge.
Maynard, R.A. (Ed.) (1974). Africa on film: myth and reality. Rochelle Park, N.J.: Hayden Book Co.
McCluskey, A.T. (Ed.) (2007). Frame by frame III: a filmography of the African diasporan image, 1994-2004. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Murphy, D. (2007). Postcolonial African cinema: ten directors. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Naudillon, F., Przychodzen, J. & Rao, S. (2006). L'Afrique fait son cinéma: regards et perspectives sur le cinéma africain francophone. Montréal, Québec: Mémoire d'encrier.
Okome, O. & Haynes, J. (1995). Cinema and social change in West Africa. Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria: Nigerian Film Corp.
Palmier, J.J. (2006). La femme noire dans le cinéma contemporain: star ou faire-valoir? Paris: L'Harmattan.
Petty, S. (2000, 1999). The archaeology of origin: transnational visions of Africa in a borderless cinema: essay. Halifax, N.S.: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery.
Ruelle, C.; Tapsoba, C. & Speciale, A. (2005). Afriques 50: singularités d'un cinéma pluriel. Paris: L'Harmattan.
Russell, S.A. (1988). Guide to African cinema. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
Rutanga, M. (Ed.) (2004). Gender, identity, and popular culture in contemporary African discourse. Kampala, Uganda: Centre for Basic Research.
Sacchi, F. & Caputo, R. (2008). This is Nollywood. Eureka Film Productions and the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University. A video documentary, 56 min.
Shaka, F. O.
(2004). Modernity and the African cinema. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.
See Shiela Petty's review in African Studies Review April 2006, Volume 49, Number 1, p.169-170.
Sherzer, D. (Ed.) (1996). Cinema, colonialism, postcolonialism: perspectives from the French and francophone world. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Shiri, K. (1992). Directory of African film-makers and films. Trowbridge: Flicks.
Signaté, I. (1994). Med Hondo, un cinéaste rebelle. Paris: Présence Africaine.
Tcheuyap, A. (2005). De l'écrit à l'écran: les réécritures filmiques du roman africain francophone. Ottawa: Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa.
Tcheuyap, A. & Doho, G., et al. (2005). Cinema and social discourse in Cameroon. Bayreuth, Germany: Thielmann & Breitinger.
Thackway, M. (2003). Africa shoots back: alternative perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African film. Bloomington: Indiana University Press; Oxford: James Currey; Cape Town: David Philip.
Thiers-Thiam, Valérie. (2005). A chacun son griot: le mythe du griot-narrateur dans la littérature et le cinéma d'Afrique de l'Ouest. Paris: L'Harmattan.
Ukadike, N.F. (2002). Questioning African cinema: conversations with filmmakers. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Vieyra, P.S. (1975). Le cinéma africain. Paris: Présence africaine.
Wiley, D. & Cancel, R. (Eds.) (1982). Africa on film and videotape, 1960-1981: a compendium of reviews. East Lansing, Mich.: African Studies Center, Michigan State University.
