| Description |
xxx, 225 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Conversations with filmmakers series
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Conversations with filmmakers series.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes filmography: pages xxv-xxx. |
| Contents |
A historic confrontation in 1965 between Jean Rouch and Ousmane Sembène : "You look at us as if we were insects" / Albert Cervoni -- Ousmane Sembène : for me, the cinema is an instrument of political action, but ... / Guy Hennebelle -- We are governed in Black Africa by colonialism's disabled children / Guy Hennebelle -- Filmmakers have a great responsibility to our people / Harold D. Weaver -- Ousmane Sembène interviewed in Munich / Marie Kadour -- Ousmane Sembène : an interview / Gerald Peary and Patrick McGilligan -- African cinema is not a cinema of folklore / Siradiou Diallo -- Interview with Ousmane Sembène / Michael Dembrow and Klaus Troller -- Interview with Ousmane Sembène / Noureddine Ghali -- Sembène Ousmane in Kinshasa / Pierre Haffner -- Interview with Ousmane Sembène / Rolf Richter -- Interview with Ousmane Sembène / Ulrich Gregor -- In the name of tolerance : a meeting with Ousmane Sembène / Josie Fanon -- Samori : the last grand oeuvre of Sembène Ousmane / Alioune Touré Dia -- I am tired, my desire is to leave / Meissa Diop -- The language of real life / Kwate Nee Owoo -- If I were a woman, I'd never marry an African / Fírinne Ní Chréacháin -- Ousmane Sembéne / James A. Jones -- Interview with Ousmane Sembène / Françoise Pfaff -- Interview with Ousmane Sembene about Guelwaar / Bernd Wolpert -- Ousmane Sembène / David Murphy -- Still the fire in the belly : the confessions of Ousmane Sembène / Mamadou Niang -- Interview with Ousmane Sembène / Samba Gadjigo -- The power of female solidarity : an interview with Ousmane Sembène / Jared Rapfogel and Richard Porton -- Ousmane Sembène / Bonnie Greer. |
| Summary |
Although the Senegalese filmmaker Sembène (1923-2007) was considered one of the world's leading directors, his work was largely unknown beyond rarefied cinephile circles. Often called "the Father of African film," he was a prominent novelist before turning to cinema in 1963 as the best way, considering the widespread prevalence of illiteracy on the continent, to reach a broad African audience. His 1968 first feature, Mandabi, was the first African film to be theatrically exhibited in America, and such subsequent works as Xala (based on his 1973 novel), Guelwaar, and Moolaad drew worldwide acclaim for their hard-eyed looks at political corruption, Christian-Muslim conflict, and the treatment of women. The 25 interviews collected here, conducted between 1965 and 2005, are drawn from a wide-ranging variety of sources, including English-language film magazines and newspapers, African literary journals, monographs, and Web sites. They offer invaluable insight into the work of this critically important but largely unfamiliar figure, although they tend to focus on political and cultural issues at the expense of Sembène's cinematic approaches to them. Copyright 2008 Booklist Reviews. |
| Subject |
Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007 -- Interviews.
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Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007. |
| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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| Subject |
Motion picture producers and directors -- Senegal -- Interviews.
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Motion picture producers and directors. |
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Senegal. |
| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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| Added Author |
Busch, Annett.
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Annas, Max.
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| ISBN |
193411085X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1934110868 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781934110850 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781934110867 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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