African Affairs 101:645-650 (2002)
© 2002 The Royal African Society
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African Cinema and its Criticism
Jonathan Haynes is Associate Professor, Humanities Division, Southampton College, Long Island University, New York.
Sembène: Imagining alternatives in film and fiction, by David Murphy. Oxford: James Currey and Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2001. xi + 275 pp. £14.95 paperback. ISBN 0-85255-5555-5.
Symbolic Narratives/African Cinema: Audiences, theory and the moving image, edited by June Givanni. London: British Film Institute, 2000. xvi + 256 pp. £40.00 hardback. ISBN 0-85170-737-8.
African Cinemas: Decolonizing the gaze, by Olivier Barlet. London and New York: Zed Books, 2000. xii + 315 pp. £14.95 paperback. ISBN 1-85649-743-7.