Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers
Beyond Representation

Contributions by Florence Martin,Suzanne Gauch,Sheila Petty,Melissa Thackway,Herve Tchumkam,El Hadji Moustapha Diop,Felix Veilleux

ISBN13: 9780253066527

Imprint: Indiana University Press

Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Published: 05/09/2023

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Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers is groundbreaking edited collection which explores the contributions of Francophone African women to the field of documentary filmmaking. Rich in its scope and critical vision it constitutes a timely contribution to cutting-edge scholarly debates on African cinemas. Featuring 10 chapters from prominent film scholars, it explores the distinctive documentary work and contributions of Francophone African women filmmakers since the 1960s. It focuses documentaries by North African and Sub-Saharan women filmmakers, including the pioneering work of Safi Faye in Kaddu Beykat, Rama Thiaw's The Revolution Will Not be Televised, Katy Lena Ndiaye's Le Cercle des noyes and En attendant les hommes, Dalila Ennadre's Fama: Heroism Without Glory and Leila Kitani's Nos lieux interdits. Shunned from costly fictional- 35mm-filmmaking, Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers examines how these women engaged and experimented with documentary filmmaking in personal, evocative ways that countered the officially sanctioned, nationalist practice of show and teach/promote.
Introduction, by Suzanne Crosta, Sada Niang, and Alexie Tcheuyap 1. Documenting the Unseemly: Moroccan Women's Documentaries in the 2000s, by Florence Martin 2. Outsiders on the Inside: Rokhaya Diallo's Les marches de la liberté as Activist Documentary, by Sheila Petty 3. Challenging Documentary Practice: A Return to Safi Faye's Kaddu Beykat, by Melissa Thackway 4. Revisiting the "Domestic Ethnography" Approach in Khady Sylla's Une Fenêtre ouverte, by El Hadji Moustapha Diop 5. Tales of Colonels: Auteurship and Authority in Mama Colonel (2017) and This is Congo (2017), by Alexie Tcheuyap and Felix Veilleux 6. Authorizing Reality in Leila Kilani's Our Forbidden Places (2008) and Kaouther Ben Hania's The Slasher of Tunis (2014), by Suzanne Gauch 7. Documenting Tyranny: The Politics of Memory in Leila Kilani and Osvalde Lewat, by Herve Tchumkam 8. Ecological Representations in African Women Documentaries, by Suzanne Crosta 9. Looping the Loop: Rama Thiaw's The Revolution Won't Be Televised (2016), by Sada Niang 10. Dancing with the Camera: Interview with Nadine Otsobogo, by Suzanne Crosta, Sada Niang, and Alexie Tcheuyap Index
  • Film theory & criticism
  • Human rights
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