Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

1 Africa Watch: Parameters and Contexts 1

Part I Space 33

2 The Postcolonial City: Education of the Spectator in Harrikrisna Anenden’s The Cathedral 35

3 Framing the City: Africanizing Viewer and Viewed through Angle, Distance, Genre, and Movement 55

Part II Character 77

4 Models of African Femininity 79

5 African Masculinity: “We Don’t Need Another Hero” 113

6 Revolutionary Personhood: Revolutionize the Spectator, or Stop, Thief! 133

Part III Narrative 155

7 Documentary Film: Situating a Style 157

8 African Narration: Narration of Africa 172

9 Jean-Marie Teno: Creating an African Repertoire 187

10 Conclusion: Inside/Outside or How to Make a Film about Africa Today 216

Filmography 234

References 238

Glossary 246

Index 251

About the Author

Anjali Prabhu is Professor of French and Francophone Studiesat Wellesley College, USA, where she also teaches in the Cinema andMedia Studies Program. The author of Hybridity: Limits,Transformations, Prospects (2007), she has published widely injournals such as Cinema Journal, International Journal ofFrench and Francophone Studies, Levinas Studies, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Diacitics, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first CenturyLiteratures, Presence Francophone, and Comparative Literature Studies.

Reviews

"Anjali Prabhu's Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora goes well beyond what might be expected of a book on the subject. For apart from its comprehensiveness, verve and lucidity, it raises philosophical and ethical questions about spectatorship that will find resonance with all scholars of cinema, wherever they may be found. The book is nothing short of a delightful and thought-provoking masterpiece." Ato Quayson, Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto ?Absorbing reading, as theoretically insightful as it is winningly and meticulously argued. I have been greatly enriched by Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora. It is a stellar accomplishment and a significant contribution to African and diaspora film and cultural studies.? Tejumola Olaniyan, Louise Durham Mead Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison