African Cinema and Urbanism

von Marie-Paule Macdonald

128 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The changing nature of African landscapes, from rural to urbanized spaces, has been a pre-occupation of African media producers since the beginnings of the African film industry in the 1960s. The authors bring together several examples of African documentary and fiction screen media that present, evaluate and criticize urban and rural landscapes, and the rural and urban dynamic of development, in relation to contemporary issues, from biodiversity, sustainability and deforestation, to inequity, women's rights, political instability, to climate change-related themes of water and food supply, security and sovereignty. These works, comprising multi-platform cinema, streamed moving images and especially documentaries, depict the situations and open the door to rethinking and eventually to the possibilities of proposals responding to the situations portrayed.

• Reihe: Anthem Africology Series
• Themen: Kunst Darstellende Künste Film, Kino
• ISBN: 9781839991073
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.12.2024
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Anthem Press