Wayne State University Press - Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality

Cinemas of the Black Diaspora

Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality

Edited by Michael T. Martin

Paper - 9780814325889
Price: $25.95s

Published 1995
Pages: 540

Subjects: Film and Television: World Cinema, Africana Studies: Theatre, Art, and Film

Series: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series

Description

The first comprehensive survey of cinema throughout the Diaspora, this book examines the impact on filmmaking of Western culture, capitalist production and distribution methods, and colonialism and the continuing neo-colonial status of the peoples and cou

Published by Wayne State University Press

Author(s)

Other Books by Michael T. Martin: New Latin American Cinema, Volume 1: Theories, Practices, and Transcontinental Articulations, New Latin American Cinema, Volume 2: Studies of National Cinemas,

Reviews

"The richest anthology on the post-colonial Black cinemas in Africa and in the diaspora, written by budding scholars, critics, and filmmakers. Cinemas of the Black Diaspora consists of critical essays, interviews, and manifestos that both clarify and question such accepted (and sometimes disputed) categories as Third World cinema, national cinema, Black cinema, international cinema, and diaspora cinema. A must for college courses on alternative cinemas and film practices."

— Hamid Naficy, Rice University