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Passion of the Reel: Cinematic versus Modernist Political Fictions in Cameroon Tchouaffe, Jean-Olivier (Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas)
Passion of the Reel: Cinematic versus Modernist Political Fictions in Cameroon
Tchouaffe, Jean-Olivier (Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas)
Highlighting the challenges faced by a nascent national cinema with limited resources, this title provides an analysis of the output of the Cameroonian film industry. It shows that Cameroon - and Africa - must move beyond their colonial legacies to focus on indigenous productions of meaning informed by ordinary Cameroonian life experience.
292 pages