African Cinema: Postcolonial and Feminist Readings
- ISBN-10
- 0865436975
- ISBN-13
- 9780865436978
- Category
- Feminism and motion pictures
- Pages
- 356
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Africa World Press
- Author
- Kenneth W. Harrow
Description
Although there were film-making practices in Africa dating back to the colonial period, the films generally discussed in this collection are those made after independence in the early 1960s.
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