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Xala

Author : James S. Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839026006
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Xala written by James S. Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xala (1974) by the pioneering Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene, was acclaimed on its release for its scorching critique of postcolonial African society, and it cemented Sembene's status as a wholly new kind of politically engaged, pan-African, auteur film-maker. Centring on the story of businessman El Hadji and the impotence that afflicts him on his marriage to a young third wife, Xala vividly captures the cultural and political upheaval of 1970s Senegal, while suggesting the radical potential of dissent, solidarity and collective action, embodied by El Hadji's student daughter Rama and the group of urban 'undesirables' who act as a kind of raw chorus to the affairs of the neocolonial elite. James S. Williams's lucid study traces Xala's difficult production history and analyses its daring combination of political and domestic drama, oral narrative, social realism, symbolism, satire, documentary, mysticism and Marxist analysis. Yet from its dazzling extended opening sequence of revolution as performance to its suspended climax of redemption through ritualised spitting, Xala presents a series of conceptual and formal challenges that resist a simple reading of the film as allegory. Highlighting often overlooked elements of Sembene's intricate, experimental film-making, including provocative shifts in mood and poetic, even subversively erotic, moments, Williams reveals Xala as a visionary work of both African cinema and Third Cinema that extended the parameters of postcolonial film practice and still resounds today with its searing inventive power.

Xala

Author : Ousmane Sembène
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 9781556520709
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Xala written by Ousmane Sembène and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ousmane's satirical fable tells of the downfall of El Hadji, a member of the African elite who have taken the place of white businessmen in Francophone Africa. The protagonist is stricken with xala--impotence--in a racous bedrroom scene with his new young wife. The novel subtly traces the interplay among his three wives as El Hadji desperately tries to over come the affliction. In his obsession he resorts to primitive incantation, and his unscrupulous business associates cynically reject their former friend."--Cover

Curse

Author : Ousmane Sembène
Publisher : Heinemann International Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780435901752
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Curse written by Ousmane Sembène and published by Heinemann International Incorporated. This book was released on 1976 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at how the new African middle class have taken over from the colonialists as the exploiters of the people.

Xala

Author : James S. Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839026006
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Learning from the Curse

Author : Richard Fardon
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781849046954
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book Learning from the Curse written by Richard Fardon and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book is about a story (Ousmane Sembene's Xala), about a time (the aftermath of Senegalese Independence), and about a place (Dakar, the capital of Senegal). It's also about the collaboration between an artist and an anthropologist, who have reacted in their different mediums to the story, time and place, and to what the other made of them ....' So opens a unique account in a genre of its own devising that will engage readers interested in Sembene Ousmane as writer and film director, in Senegal, in African film, in West Africa, or in books designed to be desirable objects in their own right.

Xala

Author : Ousmane Sembène
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613746520
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Xala written by Ousmane Sembène and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 1997-08-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biting satire about the downfall of a businessman-polygamist who assumes the role of the colonialist in French-speaking Africa.

Ousmane Sembène

Author : Annett Busch
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781934110867
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Ousmane Sembène written by Annett Busch and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected interviews with the African filmmaker who directed Black Girl, Mandabi, Xala, Ceddo, Faat Kine, and Moolaade

Cultures of Representation

Author : Benjamin Fraser
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231850964
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Representation written by Benjamin Fraser and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultures of Representation is the first book to explore the cinematic portrayal of disability in films from across the globe. Contributors explore classic and recent works from Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Iran, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Senegal, and Spain, along with a pair of globally resonant Anglophone films. Anchored by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder's coauthored essay on global disability-film festivals, the volume's content spans from 1950 to today, addressing socially disabling forces rendered visible in the representation of physical, developmental, cognitive, and psychiatric disabilities. Essays emphasize well-known global figures, directors, and industries – from Temple Grandin to Pedro Almodóvar, from Akira Kurosawa to Bollywood – while also shining a light on films from less frequently studied cultural locations such as those portrayed in the Iranian and Korean New Waves. Whether covering postwar Italy, postcolonial Senegal, or twenty-first century Russia, the essays in this volume will appeal to scholars, undergraduates, and general readers alike.

So Long a Letter

Author : Mariama Bâ
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478611235
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book So Long a Letter written by Mariama Bâ and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2012-05-06 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by award-winning African novelist Mariama Bâ and translated from the original French, So Long a Letter has been recognized as one of Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century. The brief narrative, written as an extended letter, is a sequence of reminiscences —some wistful, some bitter—recounted by recently widowed Senegalese schoolteacher Ramatoulaye Fall. Addressed to a lifelong friend, Aissatou, it is a record of Ramatoulaye’s emotional struggle for survival after her husband betrayed their marriage by taking a second wife. This semi-autobiographical account is a perceptive testimony to the plight of educated and articulate Muslim women. Angered by the traditions that allow polygyny, they inhabit a social milieu dominated by attitudes and values that deny them status equal to men. Ramatoulaye hopes for a world where the best of old customs and new freedom can be combined. Considered a classic of contemporary African women’s literature, So Long a Letter is a must-read for anyone interested in African literature and the passage from colonialism to modernism in a Muslim country. Winner of the prestigious Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.

Fetishism and Curiosity

Author : Laura Mulvey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838715681
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Fetishism and Curiosity written by Laura Mulvey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer and film-maker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary cultural theorists, credited for incorporating film theory, psychoanalysis and feminism. Part of the pathbeating 1970s generation of British film theorists and independent film-makers, she came to prominence with her classic essay on the pleasures – and displeasures – of narrative cinema, 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'. She went on to make her own avant-garde films, co-directed with Peter Wollen, and to write further, greatly influential works – including this one. Fetishism and Curiosity contains writings which range from analyses of Xala, Citizen Kane and Blue Velvet, to an extended engagement with the creations of Native American artist Jimmie Durham and the feminist photographer Cindy Sherman. Essays explore the concept of fetishism as developed by Marx and Freud, and how it relates to the ways in which artistic texts work. Mulvey returns to some of the knottier issues in contemporary cultural theory, especially the links between looking, fantasy and theorisation on the one hand, and the processes of historical change on the other. What are the modes of address that characterise 'societies of the spectacle'? How might 'curiosity' be directed towards deciphering the politics of popular culture? These are just some of the questions raised in this brilliant and subtle collection. Published as part of the BFI Silver series, this new edition of Mulvey's classic work of feminist theory features a new, specially commissioned introduction and stills from the films discussed.

Endogenous Growth Theory

Author : Philippe Aghion
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262011662
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Endogenous Growth Theory written by Philippe Aghion and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Problems and solutions by Cecilia Garcâia-Peänalosa in collaboration with Jan Boone, Chol-Won Li, and Lucy White." Includes bibliographical references (p. [665]-687) and index.

America's Blind Spot

Author : Michael J. Economides
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441119027
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book America's Blind Spot written by Michael J. Economides and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High oil prices are bound to undermine the U.S. economic recovery, unless global supplies increase significantly. Latin America holds the world's biggest oil reserves after the Middle East, but politics are hindering its potential, especially in Venezuela. Global U.S. security would benefit from a revamping of outdated and misguided idealism-driven policies toward Latin America, which, in fact, strengthen anti-American forces led by President Hugo Chávez. This is a blind spot in American politics, one that threatens U.S. geopolitical and economic interests. At stake, ultimately, is the U.S.'s ability to navigate a shifting world and protect its way of life. Washington needs a new regional policy not only to neutralize Chávez, but also to secure long term access to Latin America's oil, improve global security, and counter the rising influence of regional players. America's Blind Spot offers a fascinating and thorough analysis of key geopolitical and economic threats to the U.S., highlighting the need for a new Latin American policy doctrine based on military and strategic priorities.

God's Bits of Wood

Author : Ousmane Sembène
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435909598
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book God's Bits of Wood written by Ousmane Sembène and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "God's Bits of Wood is a fictionalized account of the Dakar-Niger train strikes which took in the 1940s. The novel looks at both the political and personal sacrifices the strikers and their families made. The political power is portrayed here as the strikers try to win back pensions, annual paid vacations, and family allowances from the Europeans. The novel can be seen as a shift of power between the African strikers and their European bosses. The Europeans have the political process and violence as a leverage of power, which they use both insistently and mindlessly. One of the European delegates for the railway company accidentally shoots young boys who are playing along the tracks. The delegate isn't charged with their murders. The Europeans also prevent the strikers and their families from having access to water. Yet the strikers also have the masses as their power. The strikers gain powerful allies in their own women. In the beginning of the novel, the women are not told the details of the strike, though they are asked to support their men. Only the small child, Ad'jibid'ji, shows any interest and insists that her grandfather take her to a meeting of the strikers. Yet as the novel continues, the women become more and more involved in the strike. This is because the strike has hit home to them in a literal way. There is no water nor food to eat. The women and children begin to starve. The women suffer in silence until they begin to fight back. Two of the more striking sequences in the novel are the siege between the women of N'Diayene and the policemen who have come to arrest Ramatoulaye, and leads to the burning down of the village, and the march the women go on to Dakar to protest their treatment and to support the strikers. The strike breaks down the barriers which cause inequality between men and women, black and white." -- from www.associatedcontent.com (Oct. 22, 2010).

How Do We Look?

Author : Fatimah Tobing Rony
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 147802190X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book How Do We Look? written by Fatimah Tobing Rony and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In How Do We Look? Fatimah Tobing Rony draws on transnational images of Indonesian women as a way to theorize what she calls visual biopolitics—the ways visual representation determines which lives are made to matter more than others. Rony outlines the mechanisms of visual biopolitics by examining Paul Gauguin’s 1893 portrait of Annah la Javanaise—a trafficked thirteen-year-old girl found wandering the streets of Paris—as well as US ethnographic and documentary films. In each instance, the figure of the Indonesian woman is inextricably tied to discourses of primitivism, savagery, colonialism, exoticism, and genocide. Rony also focuses on acts of resistance to visual biopolitics in film, writing, and photography. These works, such as Rachmi Diyah Larasati’s The Dance that Makes You Vanish, Vincent Monnikendam’s Mother Dao (1995), and the collaborative films of Nia Dinata, challenge the naturalized methods of seeing that justify exploitation, dehumanization, and early death of people of color. By theorizing the mechanisms of visual biopolitics, Rony elucidates both its violence and its vulnerability.

Cinema of Exploration

Author : James Leo Cahill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042989032X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Cinema of Exploration written by James Leo Cahill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together 18 contributions from leading international scholars, this book conceptualizes the history and theory of cinema’s century-long relationship to modes of exploration in its many forms, from colonialist expeditions to decolonial radical cinemas to the perceptual voyage of the senses made possible by the cinematic apparatus. This is the first anthology dedicated to analysing cinema’s relationship to exploration from a global, decolonial, and ecological perspective. Featuring leading scholars working with pathbreaking interdisciplinary methodologies (drawing on insights from science and technology studies, postcolonial theory, indigenous ways of knowing, and film theory and history), it theorizes not only cinema’s implication in imperial conquest but also its cutting-edge role in empirical expansion and experiments in sensual and critical perception. The collected essays consider filmmaking in cross-cultural contexts and films made in or about peoples in South America, Asia, Africa, Indigenous North America, as well as polar, outer space, and underwater exploration, with famous figures such as Jacques Yves Cousteau alongside amateur and scientific filmmakers. The essays in this collection are ideal for a broad range of scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students in cinema and media studies, cultural studies, and cognate fields.

Ousmane SembÃ ̈ne

Author : Samba Gadjigo
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253004268
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Ousmane SembÃ ̈ne written by Samba Gadjigo and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samba Gadjigo presents a unique personal portrait and intellectual history of novelist and filmmaker Ousmane SembÃ ̈ne. Though SembÃ ̈ne has persistently deflected attention away from his personality, his life, and his past, Gadjigo has had unprecedented access to the artist and his family. This book is the first comprehensive biography of SembÃ ̈ne and contributes a critical appraisal of his life and art in the context of the political and social influences on his work. Beginning with SembÃ ̈ne's life in Casamance, Senegal, and ending with his militant career as a dockworker in Marseilles, Gadjigo places SembÃ ̈ne into the context of African colonial and postcolonial culture and charts his achievements in film and literature. This landmark book reveals the inner workings of one of Africa's most distinguished and controversial figures.

Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory

Author : Patrick Williams
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231100205
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory written by Patrick Williams and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial theory and criticism. The many contributors include Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Edward Said, Anthony Giddens, Anne McClintock, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, and bell hooks.