1st Edition
Contemporary Lusophone African Film Transnational Communities and Alternative Modernities
Introduction: Situating Lusophone African Cinema
Paulo de Medeiros and Livia Apa
1. Lusophone African Cinema as World-Cinema
Paulo de Medeiros
2. Lusophone Filmmaking in the realm of transnational African cinemas: from ‘global ethnic’ to ‘global aesthetic’
Ute Fendler
3. Sounds of Liberation: Sarah Maldoror’s Sambizanga (1972) and Miguel Gomes’ Tabu (2012)
Marissa J. Moorman
4. Resistance and Political Awareness Through the Eye-Camera of Sarah Maldoror
Maria do Carmo Piçarra
5. The eleventh island: Cape Verde, the Moving Images and its Diaspora
Livia Apa
6. Postcolonial Testimony and the Ruins of Empire
Robert Stock
7. In the Name of the Rosa: The Ethnographic Reflex in the Cinema of Licínio Azevedo
Hilary Owen
8. From the tabanca to Bissau, from Bissau to the Diaspora: Social Narratives in the Bissau–Guinean Popular Cinema
Paulo Cunha and Catarina Laranjeiro
9. The Representation of Ritual and Cinema as a Ritual in Revolutionary Mozambique: Ruy Guerra’s ‘Mueda, Memória e Massacre’
Raquel Schefer
10. A melancholic outlook on 40 years of lusophone audio-visual production and Guinea, the two faces of the war as case study
Carolin Overhoff Ferreira
11. ‘We need to dress ourselves in the black light’: an authorial analysis of Lusophone African cinema – Flora Gomes’s case
Juscielle Oliveira
12. Pedro Pimenta, in Interview with Livia Apa
Livia Apa
Biography
Paulo de Medeiros is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, with a focus on Modern and Contemporary World Literatures, at the University of Warwick. As member of the Warwick Research Collective, one of his current projects is a study of Postimperial Europe.
Livia Apa is a member of the Center for Studies on Contemporary Africa (CESAc) at the University of Naples 'L’Orientale'. She works on literary and cultural studies in Portuguese-speaking countries, focused on African cinema, migrations, and cultures of the diaspora, linguistic rights, and contemporary African thought.
