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SUMMARY:Documentary Objectives: Filming Africa from Colonialism to Indepen
 dence - Rachel Gabara
LOCATION:Encina Commons Room 123\, 615 Crothers Way\, Stanford\, CA 94305
DESCRIPTION:Session Description:\n\nFor well over a century\, filmmakers h
 ave been shooting documentaries in West and Central Africa\, a region tha
 t included the colonies of French West and Equatorial Africa and now enco
 mpasses fourteen nations and nearly 200 million people. These films playe
 d a crucial role in the development of both European and African cinemas 
 yet have been largely ignored by scholars. In the wake of fifty years of 
 French colonial documentary in sub-Saharan Africa- propaganda-infused tra
 vel\, hunting\, expedition\, and ethnographic films- African directors re
 claimed their cinematic image by challenging outsider claims to authentic
 ity and developing new models for nonfiction. I will highlight the nearly
  forgotten innovations of the decades following independence to demonstra
 te how\, in a complex network of images and languages and across a dynami
 c range of modes\, African documentarists remade a global art form rooted
  in oppression\, exoticization\, and a simplistic conception of filmic re
 alism.\n\nSpeaker Bio:\n\nRachel Gabara is the Nancy Gillespie Brinning P
 rofessor in French at the University of Georgia\, where her teaching focu
 ses on nonfiction and historical fiction from Europe and sub-Saharan Afri
 ca. In addition to Documentary Objectives\, published earlier this year b
 y Indiana University Press\, Gabara’s recent articles address early Afric
 an film criticism (Global Movie Magazine Networks\, University of Califor
 nia Press)\, cinephilia and modernism in African cinema of the late 196\n
 \nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/bb200dfd-da67-4344-9e62-5efad25570b4
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/bb200dfd-da67-4344-9e62-5efad25570b4
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