Cinema and development in West Africa /
James E. Genova.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: cinema as art and industry -- The cinema industrial complex in French West Africa to the 1950s -- The colonialist regime of representation, 1945-60 -- West African anticolonial film politics, 1950s-60s -- The postcolonial African regime of representation -- The West African cinema industrial complex, 1960s-70s -- postscript: Francophone West African cinema to the present.