Beschreibung:
Weaving together critical analysis and a filmic conversation, this book journeys through the multiple layers of Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno's thematically and aesthetically challenging body of work, framed here as a formof decolonial cinematic resistance.
IntroductionPart IDocumentary Filmmaking in Africa: An Introduction. Defining Documentary - Documentary in Africa - Early African Cinema and the Documentary - Early African Documentary Practices - Into the Eighties...Critical Insights: Reading the Films of Jean-Marie Teno. Committed Cinema: A Poetics of Resistance - The Cinematic I: Subjectivity, Voice - (Hi)stories, Memory: Decolonial Readings of the Past - Spanning Borders: Transnationality, Circulations and ExileConclusion: For a Decolonial Aesthetics?Part II In ConversationAppendix 1 - The Writings of Jean-Marie TenoAppendix 2 - The Films of Jean-Marie Teno: List of Works, their Technical Details and Synopses