Passion of the Reel : Cinematic versus Modernist Political Fictions in Cameroon [1 ed.] 9781783205646, 9781841505640

Highlighting the challenges faced by a nascent national cinema with limited resources, Passion of the Reel provides an i

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Passion of the Reel : Cinematic versus Modernist Political Fictions in Cameroon [1 ed.]
9781783205646, 9781841505640

The federation of the previously British and French Cameroons has, since 1961, tried to integrate a highly fragmented, b

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Africa's Political Wastelands explores and confirms the fact that because of irresponsible, corrupt, selfish, and u

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A counterhistory of the modernist canon that focuses on a range of unpublished, often unfinished biographical projects u

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Including work on psychoanalysis, politics, film production, autobiography, and the relationship between film tradition

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Reel to Reel, Alan Shapiro’s twelfth collection of poetry, moves outward from the intimate spaces of family and romantic

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The Bakweri people of Mount Cameroon, an active volcano on the coast of West Africa a few degrees north of the equator,

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The city and the cinema have become inextricably intertwined over the last century, with the identities of places becomi

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This book proposes a revisionist approach to democratic politics. Yaron Ezrahi focuses on the creative unconscious colle

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Working for Cameroon state-owned Radio in the 1970s and 80s meant toeing the official line and learning not to sing out

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The federation of the previously British and French Cameroons has, since 1961, tried to integrate a highly fragmented, b

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