This bibliography was prepared by Meadow Dibble-Dieng (French Studies) with the assistance of Linda Liu (English Department) as a research guide for Philip Rosen's course on African cinema.

Armes, Roy
Black African cinema
[London: Institute of Contemporary Arts,1985

Armes, Roy
Third World film making and the West / Roy Armes
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1987
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1993.5.D44 A76 1987

Atlanta Third World Film Festival & Forum (9th : 1989)
African Cinema Now!: Three Essays from the 9th Annual Atlanta Third World Film Festival & Forum November 2-5, 1989.
Atlanta: Bureau of Cultural Affairs in cooperation with the African Studies Association, 1989.

Balogun, Francoise.
The Cinema in Nigeria / by Francoise Balogun.
Enugu, Anambra State, Nigeria: Delta of Nigeria, 1987.

Barlet, Olivier
African cinemas : decolonizing the gaze / Olivier Barlet ; translated by Chris Turner.
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1993.5.A35 B3713 2000

Barlet, Olivier. Les Cinémas d'Afrique Noire : le regard en question / Olivier Barlet.
Paris: L'Harmattan, c1996.

Bikales, Thomas J.
From "culture" to "commercialization" : the production and packaging of an African cinema in Ou[a]gadougou, Burkina Faso / by Thomas James Bikales
New York : New York University, 1997

Blackframes : critical perspectives on Black independent cinema / [editors, Mbye B. Cham, Claire Andrade-Watkins]
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1988
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1995.9.N4 B56 1988

Boss, Joyce-Elaine. The Politics of post-colonialism: Africa, the West, and critical representation / by Joyce-Elaine Boss.
Los Angeles : University of California at Los Angeles, 1995

Burns, James McDonald.
Flickering shadows : cinema and identity in colonial Zimbabwe / J.M. Burns ; foreword by Peter Davis.
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2002.
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1993.5.Z55 B87 2002

Cameron, Kenneth M.
Africa on Film: Beyond Black and White/ Rob Nixon.
New York: Continuum, 1994 LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1995.9.A43 C36 1994

Cinema, colonialism, postcolonialism : perspectives from the French and francophone world / edited by Dina Sherzer
1st ed
Austin : University of Texas Press, 1996
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1993.5.F7 C4788 1996

Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality ; edited by Michael T. Martin.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995.
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1995.9.N4 C58 1995

Diawara, Manthia, 1953-
African cinema : politics & culture / Manthia Diawara
Bloomington ; Indiana University Press, c1992
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1993.5.A35 D5 1992

Dictionnaire du Cinéma Africain.
Paris: Karthala: Ministère de la cooperation et du développement, c1991-

Enahoro, Augustine Ufua
Semiotics of an African cinema : Xala as a paradigm
Jos, Nigeria : Cinemarts Communications Internationale, 1997

Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey.
Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity / Gwendolyn Audrey Foster.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, c1997.
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1998.2 .F672 1997

Gabriel, Teshome H.
Third Cinema in the Third World: The Aesthetics of Liberation / by Teshome H. Gabriel. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, c1982.

Gardies, André.
Cinéma d'Afrique Noire Francophone: l'Espace-miroir / André Gardies.
Paris: L'Harmattan, c1989.

Gray, John
Blacks in Film and Television: A Pan-African Bibliography of Films, Filmmakers, and Performers / compiled by John Gray.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.

Gupta, Dhruba
African cinema : a view from India
Jamshedpur : Celluloid Chapter, 1994

Haffner, Pierre.
Essai Sur les fondements du cinéma africain / Pierre Haffner.
[Abidjan, Dakar]: Nouvelles Editions Africaines, c1978.

Ilboudo, Patrick G.
Le FESPACO, 1969-1989: Les cinéastes africains et leurs oeuvres / Patrick G. Ilboudo.
[Ouagadougou]: Editions La Mante, [c1988].

Littérature et cinéma en Afrique francophone: Ousmane Sembene et Assia Djebar / sous la direction de Sada Niang.
Paris: L'Harmattan, c1996.

Luedtke, Kurt.
Out of Africa: The Shooting Script / screenplay by Kurt Luedtke ; introduced and annotated by Sydney Pollack.
New York: Newmarket Press, c1987.
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1997 .O87 1987

Malkmus, Lizbeth
Arab and African film making / Lizbeth Malkmus and Roy Armes
Published London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA : Zed Books, 1991
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1993.5.A65 M3 1991

Mayer, Ruth.
Artificial Africas : colonial images in the times of globalization.
Hanover, NH : University Press of New England [for] Dartmouth College, c2002. LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
E169.04 .M3694 2002

Maynard, Richard A.
Africa on Film: Myth and Reality ; edited by Richard A. Maynard.
Rochelle Park, N.J., Hayden Book Co. [c1974].
Hayden film attitudes and issues series.

Movies, moguls, mavericks : South African Cinema 1979-1991 ; edited by Johan Blignaut, Martin Botha.
Cape Town: Showdata, 1992.

New discourses of African cinema = Nouveaux discours du cinéma africain.
Coralville, IA : IRIS, 1995
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1993.5.A35 N49x 1995

Ngansop, Guy Jeremie.
Le cinéma Camerounais en crise / Guy Jeremie Ngansop.
Paris:L'Harmattan, [1988], c1987.

Nigerian video films / edited with an introduction by Jonathan Haynes
Rev. and expanded ed
Athens : Ohio University Center for International Studies, c2000
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1992.34.N6 N55 2000

Nixon, Rob, 1954-
Homelands, Harlem, and Hollywood : South African culture and the world beyond / Rob Nixon
New York : Routledge, 1994
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
DT1757 .N59 1994

Okome, Onookome.
Cinema and Social Change in West Africa / Onookome Okome, Jonathan Haynes.
Jos: Nigerian Film Corp., 1995.

Petty, Sheila
Sub-Saharan African cinema and female subjectivity : the production of identities
Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University, 1992

Pfaff, Françoise
Twenty-five Black African filmmakers : a critical study, with filmography and bio-bibliography / Françoise Pfaff
New York : Greenwood Press, 1988
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1998.A2 P477 1988

Questions of third cinema / edited by Jim Pines and Paul Willemen
London : BFI Pub., 1989
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1993.5.D44 Q47 1989

Russell, Sharon A., 1941- Guide to African cinema / Sharon A. Russell
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1993.5.A35 R87 1998

Schmidt, Nancy J.
Sub-Saharan African films and filmmakers, 1987-1992: an annotated bibliograghy / Nancy J. Schmidt.
London; [New Providence, N.J.]: Hans Zell Publishers, 1994.
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
Z5784.M9 S32 1994

Shiri, Keith.
Directory of African Film-Makers and Films / compiled and edited by Keith Shiri.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992.
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
1-SIZE PN1993.5.A35 S48 1992

Shohat, Ella, 1959-
Unthinking Eurocentrism : multiculturalism and the media / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam
London ; New York : Routledge, 1994
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1993.5.D44 S56 1994

Slavin, David Henry.
Colonial cinema and imperial France, 1919-1939 : white blind spots, male fantasies, settler myths.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1993.5.F7 S587 2001

Symbolic narratives/African cinema : audiences, theory and the moving image / edited by June Givanni, with an introduction by Imruh Bakari
Published London : British Film Institute, 2000
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1993.5.A35 S96x 2000

Tomaselli, Keyan G., 1948-
The cinema of apartheid : race and class in South African film / Keyan Tomaselli
New York : Smyrna/Lake View Press, c1988
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1993.5.S6 T58 1988

Traore, Biny.
La problèmatique du cinéma africain: son public, ses motivations et ses fonctions / Traore Biny.
Bobo-Dioulasso [Upper Volta]: Lycee Ouezzin Coulibaly, [1983?].

Ukadike, Nwachukwu Frank.
Black African Cinema / Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1994.
LOCATION = Rockefeller Library
PN1993.5.A35 U4 1993

Ukadike, Nwachukwu Frank
Questioning African cinema : conversations with filmmakers
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2002

Vieyra, Paulin Soumanou.
Le cinéma africain / Paulin Soumanou Vieyra.
Paris: Présence africaine, c1975-

Vieyra, Paulin Soumanou.
Le cinéma au Sénégal / Paulin Soumanou Vieyra.
Bruxelles, Belgique: OCIC; [Paris]: L'Harmattan, c1983.
Collection cinemedia. cinemas d'Afrique noire ; 4.

Abo, Klevor. "Africa at the cinema." West Africa  3803 (1990): 2098-2099.

African Cinema 'Too Serious' for Its Own Good." Africa News April 1, 2002

Akudinobi, Jude G. "Nationalism, African cinema, and frames of scrutiny." Research in African literatures 32.3 (Fall 2001): 123-142.

----. "Reco(r)ding Reality: Representation and Paradigms in Nonfiction African Cinema." Social identities 6.3 (Sept. 2000)

Andrade-Watkins, Claire. "France's bureau of cinema: financial and technical assistance between 1961 and 1977 : operations and implications for African cinema. Framework 38-39 (1992): 27-46.

----. "Portuguese African Cinema: History and Contemporary Perspectives 1969-1993." Research in African literatures 26.3 (Fall 1995):134-150.

Armes, Roy. "Black African Cinema in the Eighties." Screen 26.3-4 (May-August 1985): 60-73.

Atkinson, Michael. "Ousmane Sembene: 'we are no longer in the era of prophets'." Film comment 29 (July/Aug. 1993): 63-67.

Aufderheide, Patricia. "The library of African cinema." Black film review 6.3 (1991): 16, 20.

Bakyono, Jean Servais. "Fespaco 76 : the Ouagadougou Pan-African Film Festival." Entente africaine   23 (Jan. 1976): 40-43.

Bekolo, Jean-Pierre. "African cinema and the question of meaning: an interview with Akudinobi, Jude G." Third text   48 (Autumn 1999): 71-80.

Burns, James. "Watching Africans watch films: theories of spectatorship in British colonial Africa." Historical journal of film, radio and television 20.2 (June 2000): 197-211

Cancel, Robert. "Nadine Gordimer meets Ng^ug^i wa Thiong'o: text into film in Oral history." Research in African literatures 26 (Fall 1995):  36-48

Cham, Mbye Baboucar. "African cinema in the nineties." African studies quarterly 2:1 (1998).

----. "African women and cinema: a conversation with Anne Mungai."  Research in African literatures 25 (Fall 1994):  93-104

----. "Art and ideology in the work of Sembene Ousmane and Haile Gerima." Présence africaine 129.1. 1984: 79-91.

----. "Film text and context : reweaving Africa's social fabric through its contemporary cinema." California newsreel.

Chirol, Marie-Magdeleine. "The missing narrative in Wend Kuuni (time and space)." Research in African literatures 26 (Fall 1995):  49-56

Cieutat, Michel. "Entretien avec Adama Drabo." Positif 385 (Mars 1993): 30-33.

Davanture, Andree, and Patricia Aufderheide. "Evolving African cinema." Black film review 4.4 (Fall 1988): 11, 16.

De Turegano, Teresa Hoefert. "The new politics of African cinema at the French ministry of foreign affairs." French politics, culture and society. 20.3 (Fall 2002): 22

DeLuca, Lauran, and Shadrack Kamenya. "Representation of female circumcision in Finzan, a dance for the heroes." Research in African literatures 26 (Fall 1995):  83-78

----. "The Homes of African Cinema." Sight and sound 3.11 (Nov. 1993): 24-26

----, and Elizabeth Robinson. "New perspectives in African cinema: an interview with Cheick Oumar Sissoko." Film quarterly 41 (Winter '87/'88):   43-48

----. "Noir by noirs: towards a new realism in Black cinema." African American review 27 (Winter 1993):  525-537

----. "On tracking world cinema : African cinema at film festivals." Public culture 6.2   13, (Winter 1994): 385-396.

----. "Whose African Cinema Is It Anyway?"  Sight and sound 3.2 (Feb. 1993): 24-25

Diawara, Manthia. "African Cinema Today." Framework 37 (May 1989): 110-128.

----."The African Tale of Cinema."  Discourse (Spring-Summer 1989)

---- and Elizabeth Robinson. "New perspectives in African cinema: an interview with Cheick Oumar Sissoko." Film quarterly 41 (Winter 1987/1988): 43-8.

----.. "New York and Ouagadougou: The Homes of African Cinema."  Sight and sound 3.11 (Nov, 1993):24-6.

----."Popular Culture and Oral Traditions in African Film." Film quarterly 41.3 (Spring 1988): 6

----.. " Technological Paternalism." Jump Cut 32 (April 1986): 61-65.

----."Whose African Cinema Is It Anyway?" Sight and sound 3.2 (February 1993): 24-25.

Ditmars, Hadani. "The economics of African cinema." African business 195 (January 1995): 38-9

Dodd, Philip (ed.) "African Cinema." Sight and sound 5.9 (Sept. 1995): 30-39.

Dudley, Andrew. "Falaises sacrées et espaces communs." Iris   18 (Spring 1995): 113-124.

Dunn, Kevin. "Lights...camera...Africa : images of Africa and Africans in Western popular films of the 1930s." African studies review 39.1 (1996): 149-175.

Eyoh, Dickson. "Social realist cinema and representations of power in African nationalist discourse." Research in African literatures 29.2 (Summer'98):  112-127

"FESPACO: Festival Panafricain du Cinéma et de la Télévision de Ouagadougou = Ouagadougou Pan African Film and Television Festival." Revue noire. 17 (juin-juillet-août 199): 36-42

Gadjigo, Samba. "Africa through African eyes." Research in African literatures. 23.4 (Winter 1992): 97-105.

Gentile, Philip. "In the midst of secrets: Souleymane Cissé's Yeelen." Iris 18 (Spring 1995): 125-135.

Givanni, June. "African conversations." (Interview of Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety) Sight and sound 5.9 (Sept. 1995):30.

----. "Dream aloud : John Akomfrah, the Ghanaian-British Director, on the exhilaration of African cinemas." Sight and sound 5.9 (Sept. 1995):37.

Goldfarb, Brian. "A Pedagogical Cinema: Development Theory, Colonialism and Post-Liberation African Film." Iris 18 (Spring 1995):7-24.

Goutier, Hégel. "African cinema from Fespaco to Cannes : at last, something new." Courier : Africa, Caribbean, Pacific, European Union.  164, (July-Aug. 1997) 85-88

Gugler, Josef. "African writing projected onto the screen: Sambizanga, Xala, and Kongi's harvest." African studies review 421 (April, 1999):79-104.

Harrow, Kenneth W. "African cinema." Research in African literatures. 26.3 (Fall 1995): 1-150.

Haynes, Jonathan. "Returning to the African Village." Jump Cut 40 (March 1996) 62-66.

Hitchcock, Peter. "Risking the griot's eye: decolonisation and contemporary African cinema." Social identities 6.3 (Sept. 2000)

Jeancolas, Jean-Pierre. "La couleur de l'Afrique." Positif 385 (Mars 1993) 23-26.

Kabaré, Gaston. "The African cinema in crisis." Unesco courier. July-August 1995: 70-73.

Kabore, Gaston. "The African cinema in crisis."  Unesco courier July-August 1995):70

Kamphausen, H. "Cinema in Africa : a survey." Cineaste 5.3 (Summer 1972): 28-41.

Kennedy, James H. "The Image of Blacks in Lusophone literatures and cinema : a research bibliography." A Current Bibliography on African Affairs 20.1 (1987-1988): 5-16.

Lequeret, Élisabeth. "L'Afrique fantôme." Cahiers du cinéma 557 (May 2001): 76-83.

MacRae, Suzanne H. "Yeelen: a political fable of the Komo blacksmith/sorcerers." Research in African literatures 26 (Fall 1995):  57-66

Maingard, Jacqueline. "New South African cinema: Mapantsula and Sarafina." Screen 35.3 (Autumn 1994) 235-243.

Marker, Cynthia. "Safi Faye and Sarah Maldoror: Cinecrivaines of African Cinema." Sites 4.3 (Fall 2000): 453+

Martin, Michael T. "'I am a storyteller, drawing water from the well of my culture': Gaston Kabore, griot of African cinema." Research in African literatures 33.4 (2002): 161-79.

Medjigbodo, Nicole. "Afrique Cinématographiée, Afrique. Cinématographique."[Africa filmed, African films] Canadian journal of African studies 1980 13(3): 371-387.

Mermin, Elizabeth. "Searing portraits : the persistence of realism in black urban cinema." Third text   34 (Spring 1996): 3-14.

----. "A window on whose reality? the emerging industry of Senegalese cinema." Research in African literatures v. 26 (Fall '95)  120-33

Mhando, Martin. "Approaches To African Cinema Study." Senses of Cinema 8 (July-August 2000)

Minot, Gilbert. "Toward the African cinema." Ufahamu 12.2 (1983): 37-43.

Mowitt,John. "Sembene Ousmane's Xala: postcolonialism and foreign film languages." Camera obscura 31 (Jan.-May 1993) 72-95

Murphy, David. "Africans Filming Africa: Questioning Theories of an Authentic African Cinema." Journal of African cultural studies 13.2 Dec. 2000: 239-249

Niang, Sada, and Samba Gadijigo. "Interview with Ousmane Sembene." Research in African literatures 26 (Fall 1995)  174-178.

Okome, Onookome. "Film policy and the development of the African cinema." Glendora review 1.2 (1995): 46-53.

----. "From London to Lagos: The Evolution of Film in Nigeria." Afterimage 20.9 (April 1993): 6.

Pearson, Lyle. "Four years of African film." Film Quarterly 26.3 (Spring 1973): 42-7.

Petty, Sheila J. "African cinema and (re)education: using recent African feature films." Issue (African Studies Association) 20.2 (1991/92): 26-30

----. "The Archeology of Origin: Transnational Visions of Africa in a Borderless Cinema."African Studies Review 42.2 (Se  99)73+

----. "Cities, subjects, sites: sub-Saharan cinema and the reorganization of knowledge." Afterimage 19 (Summer 1991) 10-11.

----. "'How an African woman can be': African Women Filmmakers Construct Women." Discourse 1996 Spring, 18:3, 72-88.

Pfaff, Francoise. "New African cinema." Cineaste 22.4 (Mar. 1997): 58-59.

Pike, Charles-Ben. "Colonial Africa and exile cinema." Afterimage 13 (Dec. 1985): 14-16.

Porton, Richard. "Mambety's Hyenas: between anti-colonialism and the critique of modernity." Iris 18 (Spring 1995): 125-135.

Privett, Ray. "I Make Films about the Big Problems of Our Continent: An Interview with Cheick Oumar Sissoko." Cineaste 252 (March 2000) 38-40.

Rayfield, J. R. "Hyenas: the message and the messenger." Research in African literatures 26 (Fall 1995)  78-82

Rayfield, J. R. "Hyènes: comment trouver le message."Iris 18 (Spring 1995): 105-112.

Richard, Frédéric. "Entretien avec Idrissa Ouédraogo." Positif 385 (Mars 1993) 27-29.

Roberts,Martin Baraka. "World cinema and the global culture industry." Cinema journal 37.3 (1998): 62-82.

Rosenbaum, Jonathan. "Faat Kine."Film comment 37.1 (Jan./Feb. 2001):   14-15

Schmidt, Nancy J. "African Filmmaking, Country by Country." African studies review 28.1 (1985): 111-114.

----. "African literature on film: a preliminary bibliography/filmography." Research in African literatures 17.2 )Summer 1986): 261-266.

----. "Review essay : special issues of periodicals on African film." African studies review 4.1 (April 1997): 113-119.

"Sembene Ousmane : poet of the African cinema." Unesco courier. (Jan. 1990): 4-7.

Shaka, Femi Okiremuete. "Vichy Dakar and the other story of French colonial stewardship in Africa: a critical reading of Ousmane Sembene and Thierno Faty Sow's Camp de Thiaroye." Research in African literatures 26 (Fall 1995):  67-77.

Shohat, Ella. "Framing Post-Third-Worldist Culture: Gender and Nation in Middle Eastern/North African Film." Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies 1.1 (1997)

Sklar, Robert. "Anarchic visions."Film comment 36.3 (May/June 2000):   40-43.

Smyth, Rosaleen. "The Development Of British Colonial Film Policy, 1927-1939, With Special Reference To East And Central Africa." Journal of African history 20.3 (1979): 437-450.

----. "The Feature Film In Tanzania." African affairs 88 (352) (1989): 389-396.

Spark, David "African cinema" Sight and sound 57 (Autumn 88) 224.

Strauss, Frederic. "Le cinma africain entre deux eaux." Cahiers du cinéma 445 (June 1991): 44-5.

Teno, Jean-Marie. "Imagining Alternatives: African Cinema in the Year 2000." California Newsreel

Thompson, Felix. "Metaphors of Space: Polarization, Dualism and Third World Cinema." Screen 1993 Spring; 34(1): 38-53.

Tomaselli, Keyan G. "African Cinema - Theoretical Perspectives on Some Unresolved Questions." Critical arts 7.1-2 (1993): 1-42.

----. "The Cinema in South Africa Today." Cineaste 15.2 (1986): 13-15.

----. and Maureen Eke. "Secondary Orality in South African Film." Iris 18 (Spring 1995):61-69.

----. Tomaselli, Keyan; Shepperson, A; Eke, M. "Towards a Theory of Orality in African Cinema."  Research in African literatures 26.3 (Fall 1995): 18-35.

Turvey, Gerry. "Xala and the curse of neo-colonialism: reflections on a realist project." Screen 26.3/4 (May/Aug. 1985) 75-87.

Ugbomah, Eddie. "Toward an African cinema." Transition 63 (1994) 150-163.

Ukadike, N. Frank. "African cinematic reality: the documentary tradition as an emerging trend." Research in African literatures 26 (Fall 1995):  88-96.

----. "African films : a retrospective and a vision for the future." Critical arts 7.1 (1993): 43-60.

----. "Framing FESPACO: Pan-African film in context." Afterimage 19 (Nov. 1991): 6-9.

----. "Images of the 'reel' thing : African video-films and the emergence of a new cultural art." Social identities 6.3 (Sept. 2000)

----. "In Guinea-Bissau, cinema trickles down: an interview with Flora Gomes." Research in African literatures 26 (Fall 1995):  179-185.

----. "The other voices of documentary: Allah Tantou and Afrique, je te plumerai." Iris 18 (Spring 1995): 105-112.

----. "Reclaiming images of women in films from Africa and the Black Diaspora." Frontiers 15.1 (1994): 102-22.

----. "Western Film Images Of Africa: Genealogy Of An Ideological Formulation." Black Scholar 21.2 (1990): 30-48.

Wagner, Tereza, and Claude Ondobo. "African cinema." Unesco courier. (March 1988): 27-29.

Wert, William F. Van. "Ideology in the Third World Cinema: A Study of Sembene Ousmane and Glauber Rocha." Quarterly Review of Film Studies 4:2 (1979:Spring) 207.

Willemen, Paul. "The Making of an African Cinema." Transition 58 (1992) 138-50.

Zacks, Stephen A. "The theoretical construction of African cinema with filmography."Research in African literatures 26 (Fall 1995):  6-17.