African Filmmaking

Roy Armes is Emeritus Professor of Film at Middlesex University and author of numerous books on cinema including Arab and African Film Making (with Lizbeth Malkmus), Dictionary of North African Film Makers, and Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film. His work has been translated into 13 languages, including Japanese, Chinese and Arabic.

• INTRODUCTION; 1. The African Experience; PART ONE: CONTEXT; 2. Beginnings; 3. African Initiatives; 4. The French Connection; PART TWO: CONFRONTING REALITY; 5. Liberation and the Postcolonial Society; 6. Individual Struggle; PART THREE: NEW IDENTITIES; 7. Experimental Narratives; 8. Exemplary Tales; PART FOUR: THE NEW MILLENNIUM; 9. The Post-Independence Generation; 10. Mahamat Saleh Haroun (Chad); 11. Dani Kouyaté (Burkina Faso); 12. Raja Amari (Tunisia); 13. Faouzi Bensaidi (Morocco); 14. Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritania); BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

In the final section, 'The new millennium,' he provides a pivotal update to discussions on African filmmakers with an analysis of 'post-independence' filmmaking... Overall, African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara presents a historical analysis of the social, economic, and political factors that have an impact on post-colonial African filmmaking.