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- Title
Teaching Aberrance: Cinema as a Site for African Feminism.
- Authors
McLeod, Corinna
- Abstract
This article examines the influence of colonialist instructional cinema on modern African cinema production. The four films--Neria, Everyone's Child,Wend Kuuni, and Taafe Fanga-- differ in national origin, thematic approaches, and cinematic technique, but they share in displaying an element of instructional cinema. The instructional nature of the films asserts the value of women in postcolonial African societies, who, in the space of the films as in real life, are the double-colonized subject
- Subjects
AFRICA; FEMINISM &; motion pictures; INSTRUCTIONAL films; MOTION pictures for women; POSTCOLONIALISM &; the arts; NERIA (Film); EVERYONE'S Child (Film); TAAFE Fanga (Film)
- Publication
Journal of International Women's Studies, 2011, Vol 12, Issue 4, p79
- ISSN
1539-8706
- Publication type
Article