Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora

Analyzing art house films from the African continent and the African diaspora, this book showcases a new generation of auteurs with African origins from political, aesthetic, and spectatorship perspectives. Focuses on art house cinema and discusses commercial African cinemaEnlarges our understanding of African film to include thematic and aesthetic influenceHighlights aesthetic and political aspects including racial identity, women’s issues, and diasporaHeavily illustrated with over 90 film stillsFeatures selected stills integral to the filmic analysis in full colorMoves beyond Western-oriented analytical paradigms