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Glimmering Utopias: 50 Years of African Film

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  • Cassis Kilian

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The history of African film began in the 1960s with the independence of the colonies. Despite all kinds of political and economic difficulties, numerous films have been made since then, featuring wide-ranging processes of consolidation, differentiation and transformation which were characteristic of post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa. However, these feature films should not merely be viewed as back references to specifically African problems. The glimmering fictions are imagination spaces. They preserve ideas about how the post-colonial circumstances should be approached. Seen from this perspective, the history of African film may be studied as a history of African utopias.

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  • Cassis Kilian, 2010. "Glimmering Utopias: 50 Years of African Film," Africa Spectrum, Institute of African Affairs, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, vol. 45(3), pages 147-159.
    • Handle: RePEc:gig:afjour:v:45:y:2010:i:3:p:147-159
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