TY - BOOK AU - Stefanson,Blandine AU - Petty,Sheila TI - Directory of world cinema: Africa SN - 9781783203918 AV - PN 1993.5 D598 2014 U1 - 791.43 PY - 2014/// CY - Bristol, UK PB - Chicago, USA, Intellect Books KW - Motion pictures KW - Africa KW - History KW - Reviews KW - Cine KW - Historia y crítica KW - Actores y actrices de cine KW - África KW - 20160400 KW - Aspectos sociales N1 - "ISSN 2040-7971"; Introduction -- Films of the year -- Directors -- Modes of production -- Aesthetics -- Festival focus -- Drama -- Documentary -- Comedy -- Social issues -- Childhood in African cinema -- Literary adaptation -- History and film -- Screening war, surviving war -- Africa seen by 'outsiders': invention, idea, method -- Surreal -- (Home) video films from Nigeria and Ghana -- Recommended reading -- African cinema online -- Test your knowledge -- Notes on contributors -- Filmography N2 - Eschewing the postcolonial hubris that suggests Africa could only define itself in relation to its colonizers, a problem plaguing many studies published in the West on African cinema, this entry in the Directory of World Cinema series instead looks at African film as representing Africa for its own sake, values, and artistic choices ER -