A Recent Literary Phenomenon In Contemporary Africa Is The Developing Relationship Between Film And African Literature. Alt 28 Focuses On The Interface Between Film And Literature In Contemporary African Writing And Imagination. Contributors Have Examined The Issue From A Variety Of Perspectives: Critiques Of Adaptations Of African Creative Works Into Film, Analyses Of Filmic Structures In African Dramatic Literature, African Writers As Film Makers, And The Impact Of The Video Film Industry On Literature And The Reading Culture In Africa. -- Publisher Description. The Interface Between Film & Literature In Contemporary African Writing & Imagination / Ernest N. Emenyonu -- Strategies For Subverting Post-colonial Oppression: Literature & Cinema In Early Sembene Ousmane / Kwawisi Tekpetey -- From Negritude To Migritude?: Moussa Sene Absa's Ainsi Meurent Les Anges (and So Angels Die) / Maryellen Higgins -- Laughing Off Apartheid: Drum Magazine & The Political Economy Of Laughter In The Late Apartheid Film / Timothy Johns -- The Works Of Jean-marie Teno & Raoul Peck: Restoring Life To A Fleeced Continent / David M.m. Riep -- Haile Gerima's Pan-african 'message To The Grassroots': Hearing Malcolm X In Amharic -- Or Harvest 3000 Years / Greg Thomas -- The Video Film Industry & Its 'substitution' For Literature & Reading In Africa: A Case Of Nigeria's Nollywood / Ignatius Chukwuma & Raphael Amalaha -- The Portrayal Of Mothers-in-law In Nigerian Movies: The Good, The Bad & Oh, So Wicked / Aje-ori Agbese -- Charting Nollywood's Appeal Locally & Globally / Moradewun Adejunmobi -- The Rise Of The Video Film Industry & Its Projected Social Impact On Ghanaians / Africanus Aveh -- Constructing Identity & Authenticity: The Evolving Cameroon Video Film In English / Joyce B. Ashuntantang. Edited By Ernest N. Emenyonu. Includes Bibliographical References.

Film in African literature today : a review

Ernest N. Emenyonu; Africanus Aveh; Agbese Aje-Ori; David M.M. Riep; Greg Thomas; Ignatius Chukwuma; James Gibbs; Joyce Ashuntantang; Kwawisi Tekpetey; MaryEllen Higgins; Moradewun Adejunmobi; Raphael Obinna Amalaha; Timothy Johns

Ernest N Emenyonu; Patricia T Emenyonu

Emenyo̲nu, Ernest, 1939- editor

James Currey ; HEBN

African literature today, Ibadan, Nigeria, Woodbridge, UK, 2010

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

PT, 2010

From Hollywood to this issue of African Literature Today examines the relationship between film and video and the literatures of Africa.
A recent literary phenomenon in contemporary Africa is the developing relationship between film and African literature. ALT 28 focuses on the interface between film and literature in contemporary African writing and imagination. Contributors have examined the issue from a variety of critiques of adaptations of African creative works into film, analyses of filmic structures in African dramatic literature, African writers as film makers, and the impact of the video film industry on literature and the reading culture in Africa.
Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor of the Department of Africana Studies, University of Michigan-Flint
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xv, 158 pages ; 22 cm
A recent literary phenomenon in contemporary Africa is the developing relationship between film and African literature. This issue of African Literature Today focuses on the interface between film and literature in contemporary African writing and imagination. Contributors have examined the issue from a variety of perspectives: critiques of adaptations of African creative works into film, analysis of filmic structures in African dramatic literature, African writers as film makers, and the impact of the video film industry on society, literature and the reading culture in Africa. -- Publisher description
Includes bibliographical references

From Hollywood to Nollywood: this issue of African Literature Today examines the relationship between film and video and the literatures of Africa.

2023-06-28