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African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization: Volume 2: FESPACO―Formation, Evolution, Challenges
 0253066247, 9780253066244

Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
African Cinema and the Diasporic: Introductory Considerations
Part I: Sites and Contexts of Exhibition
African Film Festivals in Africa: Curating “African Audiences” for “African Films”
On Tracking World Cinema: African Cinema at Film Festivals
African Women on the Film Festival Landscape: Organizing, Showcasing, Promoting, Networking
African Cinema in the Tempest of Minor Festivals
Postcolonial Film Collaboration and Festival Politics
Part II: FESPACO: An Evolving Cinematic and Cultural Formation
African Cinema and Festival: FESPACO
FESPACO: Promoting African Film Development and Scholarship
FESPACO and Cultural Valorization
African Cinema: Between the “Old” and the “New”
Statement at Ouagadougou (1979)
A Name Is More Than the Tyranny of Taste
Cine-Agora Africana: Meditating on the Fiftieth Anniversary of FESPACO
Cultural Politics of Production and Francophone West African Cinema: FESPACO 1999
A Mirage in the Desert? African Women Directors at FESPACO
Cabascabo, the Film That Lastingly Established FESPACO: Interview with Alimata Salambéré, President of the First Edition (1969)
The Long Take: Gaston Kaboré on FEPACI & FESPACO
Pressing Revelations: Notes on Time at FESPACO
Fifty Years of Women’s Engagement at FESPACO
Thiaroye or Yeelen? The Two Ways of African Cinemas
Long Live Cinema! Long Live FESPACO. A Luta Continua!
Rethinking FESPACO As an Echo
Going to the Cinema in Burkina Faso
FESPACO and Its Many Afterlives
FESPACO Film Festival
Part III: Conditionalities and Challenges
Towards Reframing FESPACO
FESPACO Past and Future: Voices from the Archive
The Opening of South Africa and the Future of African Film
FESPACO 2019: Moving Toward Resurrection
Fifty Years of Memories for Shaping the Future!
Part IV: Commentaries: Filmmakers, Film Scholars, and Media Professionals
Part V: Documents
Resolution on the Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou (1972)
Regulations of the Carthage Film Festival (1970s)
Regulations of the Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou (1980)
Regulations for the Official Juries of the 26th Edition of FESPACO (2019)
FESPACO Award Winners (1972–2019)
FESPACO 50th Anniversary Symposium (2019)
Manifesto of Ouagadougou (2017)
FESPACO Poster Gallery (1969–2019)
Organizing Themes of the FESPACO Festival (1973–2019)
Major Events of FESPACO (1969–2016)
The African Film Library of Ouagadougou
Part VI. Dossiers
Dossier 1: Paul Robeson Award Initiative (PRAI)
Dossier 2: The Higher Institute of Image and Sound/Studio School (ISIS-SE)
Dossier 3: Imagine Film Training Institute
• Power to the Imagination (2020)
• Founding Myths and Storytelling: The African Modern (2011)
Index

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