CAAS 200 recommended

This course is a crtical and interdisciplinary look at the development of African Cinema from its inception in the 1960's, at the height of the sociopolitical upheavals experienced by many nations in the transition from colonialism to independence, to the recent phase of introspection and diversification. The relationship of cinematic practices to transformations in the social and economic sphere will be examined, as well as the problematic of creating an indegenous aesthetic based on oral tradition and filmic paradigm that is singularly African and counter-hegemonic. 3 Credits.

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