Reframing Africa? Reflections on Modernity and the Moving Image

This book takes readers on a series of stimulating intellectual journeys from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era to explore notions of modernity in the production and reception of the African moving image and of African archival practices. Ideas are presented from multiple historical and contemporary perspectives, while inviting new voices to participate in discussions about the future of the African moving image.

Reframing Africa? makes a plea for the recognition, preservation and repatriation of the African moving image archive, advancing ideas about how it speaks to contemporary Africans, possessed of the power to elucidate their lived experiences and to reorientate perceptions of the past, present and future. On the basis of this wide-ranging appreciation of the archive, the book charts a way forward for African-inflected film studies as well as other programmes in the humanities and social sciences.

Reframing Africa? will appeal to scholars, academics and practitioners across the continent and beyond.

Table of Contents

1. The Reframing Africa Audio-Visual Project | Cynthia Kros, Reece Auguiste and Pervaiz Khan
2. Cinema, Imperial Conquest, Modernity | Reece Auguiste, Cynthia Kros and Pervaiz Khan
3. Reflections on Ciné-archival Studies and the Dispositif in Africa | Aboubakar Sanogo
4. Reframing Film Studies in Africa: Towards New Pedagogic Terrains | Saër Maty Bâ
5. Movements of War: Film as Apparatus of Inscription and Transmission | Bettina Malcomess
6. Reading Gestures in De Voortrekkers | Palesa Nomanzi Shongwe
7. Reframing South African Cinema History | Keyan G. Tomaselli and Anna-Marie Jansen van Vuuren
8. The Foxy Five: Woke Politics and Participatory Culture | Dylan Valley
9. Cinemas of Dis/agreement: Contemporary Afrikaner Dramas | Emelia Steenekamp
10. African Cinemas across African Borders: Bridging the Gap between North Africa and Africa South of the Sahara | A Conversation between Jihan El-Tahri and Pervaiz Khan
11. African Moving Image at the Intersection of Cinema and Television | A Conversation between Palesa Nomanzi Shongwe, Dylan Valley and Pervaiz Khan
12. A New Becoming: Towards an African Time-based Media Practice | Reece Auguiste
13. Opening the Way for Further Readings and Reframings | Cynthia Kros, Reece Auguiste and Pervaiz Khanafrican cinemas