Africa's Lost Classics New Histories of African Cinema

Introduction: Revising the Classics: Opening Up the Archives of African Cinema Part I: Lost Histories 1924-69 1. The Birth of North African Cinema 2. Lost Classics' in Context: Film Production in South Africa 1920-1960 3. Francophone West African Cinema, 1955–1969: False starts and new beginnings Part II: North Africa 4. Forgotten Women, Lost Histories: Selma Baccar's Fatma 75 (1978) and Assia Djebar's La Nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua (1978) 5. Naked Nation: Youth, Masculinity, and the Coming Revolution in Man of Ashes (Nouri Bouzid, 1986) 6. Postcolonialism at Sea: The Tragic Ends of History in Badis (Mohamed A. Tazi, 1989) 7. Al Masir/Destiny (Youssef Chahine, 1997): 'a luta continua' Part III: South Africa 8. Jannie Totsiens (Jans Rautenbach, 1970): Of Love, Loss, and Lunacy 9. Boesman and Lena (Ross Devenish, 1973): The Politics of Place and Performance 10. The Stick (Darrell Roodt, 1987): A Mental State 11. Fools (Ramadan Suleman, 1997): or, the importance of being able to tell 'messy' stories at the 'wrong' time Part IV: Franchophone Africa 12. Toads and Cowboys: Tracing a Popular African Cinema in Moustapha Alassane's Le Retour d'un aventurier (1966) and Bon Voyage Sim (1966) 13. Soleil O (Med Hondo, 1969): They cannot represent themselves …’ 14. Badou Boy (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1970): Intertextuality, Gangster Movies, and the Language of African Film 15. Cinema and Nation-Building: Muna Moto (Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa, 1975) Part V: Anglophone West Africa 16. Aristotle's Plot (Jean-Pierre Bekolo, 1997): A refusal to 'find' African cinema? 17. Heritage Africa (Kwaw Ansah, 1983): A Cinema of Political Violence 18. A Nollywood Classic: Living in Bondage (Kenneth Nnebue, 1992/1993) 19. Lost in Music? Race, Culture, and Identity in Rage (Newton I. Aduaka, 2000) Part VI: Lusophone Africa 20. The Birth of Fiction: On Mueda, Memória e Massacre (Ruy Guerra, 1979) 21. Udju Azul di Yonta/The Blue Eyes of Yonta (Flora Gomes, 1992): Lost Dreams/Lost in Dreams? Part VII: East Africa 22. Harvest 3000 Years/Mïrt Sost Shi Amät (Haile Gerima, 1976): A Revolutionary Ethiopian Film 23. Women's Stories and Struggles in These Hands (Flora M'mbugu-Schelling, 1992)

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Lizelle Bisschoff