Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora

Beyond Representation

Suzanne Crosta, Sada Niang, Alexie Tcheuyap, Suzanne Crosta, Sada Niang, Alexie Tcheuyap

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9780253066558
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers is groundbreaking edited collection which explores the contributions of Francophone African women to the field of documentary filmmaking. Rich in its scope and critical vision it constitutes a timely contribution to cutting-edge scholarly debates on African cinemas.

Featuring 10 chapters from prominent film scholars, it explores the distinctive documentary work and contributions of Francophone African women filmmakers since the 1960s. It focuses documentaries by North African and Sub-Saharan women filmmakers, including the pioneering work of Safi Faye in Kaddu Beykat, Rama Thiaw's The Revolution Will Not be Televised, Katy Lena Ndiaye's Le Cercle des noyes and En attendant les hommes, Dalila Ennadre's Fama: Heroism Without Glory and Leila Kitani's Nos lieux interdits.

Shunned from costly fictional- 35mm-filmmaking, Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers examines how these women engaged and experimented with documentary filmmaking in personal, evocative ways that countered the officially sanctioned, nationalist practice of show and teach/promote.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Documenting the Unseemly: Moroccan Women’s Documentaries in the Early Twenty-First Century
• 2. Outsiders on the Inside: Rokhaya Diallo’s Les marches de la liberté as Activist Documentary
• 3. Challenging Documentary Practice: A Return to Safi Faye’s Kaddu Beykat
• 4. Revisiting the “Domestic Ethnography” Approach in Khady Sylla’s Une Fenêtre ouverte
• 5. Tales of Colonels: Auteurship and Authority in Mama Colonel (2017) and This Is Congo (2017)
• 6. Authorizing Reality in Leila Kilani’s Our Forbidden Places (2008) and Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Slasher of Tunis (2014)
• 7. Documenting Tyranny: The Politics of Memory in Leila Kilani and Osvalde Lewat
• 8. Ecological Representations in African Women Documentaries
• 9. Looping the Loop: Rama Thiaw’s The Revolution Won’t Be Televised (2016)
• 10. Dancing with the Camera: Interview with Nadine Otsobogo
• Index