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• Adejunmobi, Moradewun. "Neoliberal Rationalities in Old and New Nollywood." African Studies Review 58, no. 3 (Dec. 2015): pp. 31-53.
• Adesokan, Akinwumi. Worlds that Flourish: Postnational Aesthetics in West African Videofilms, African Cinema, and Black Diasporic Writings. Ph.D., Cornell U., 2005.
• Adeoti, Gbemisola. "Home video films and the democratic imperative in contemporary Nigeria." Journal of African Cinemas 1, no. 1 (Oct. 2009): pp. 35-55.
• Armes, Roy. Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005.
• Austin, Guy. "Against amnesia: representations of memory in Algerian cinema." Journal of African Cinemas 2, no. 1 (July 2010): pp. 27-35.
• Ayisi, Florence and Catalin Brylla. "The Politics of Representation and Audience Reception: Alternative Visions of Africa." Research in African Literatures 44, no. 2 (2013): pp. 125-141.
• Bisschoff, Lizelle. "Visions of female emancipation: three recent films from West Africa." Journal of African Cinemas 2, no. 1 (July 2010): pp. 37-48.
• Blanchon, Karine. "Accords et désaccords du cinéma malgache," in De quelques arts vivants de l’océan indien occidental. Etudes océan indien 37. Paris: Publications INALCO, 2006.
• Burns, James. "The African Bioscope: Movie-House Culture in British Colonial Africa." Afrique & histoire, special issue Villes d'Afrique: Circulation et expressions culturelles edited by Odile Goerg (Paris) 5 (April 2006): pp. ????.
• Chrétien, J.-P. "Regards africaine au cinéma." Esprit: Vues d'Afrique (Paris) 8-9 (Aug.-Sept. 2005): pp. ????.
• Cieplak, Piotr A. "The Rwandan genocide and the bestiality of representation in 100 Days (2001) and Shooting Dogs (2005)." Journal of African Cinemas 2, no. 1 (July 2010): pp. 49-63.
• Contemporary Ethiopian Artists at Fondo del Sol. Washington, D.C.: Fondo del Sol Visual Art and Media Center, 1984.
• Coutelet, Nathalie "Habib Benglia et le cinéma colonial." Cahiers d'études africaines 191 (2008): pp. 531-547.
• Dauge-Roth, Alexandre. Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010.
• Diop, Samba. "Music and narrative in five films by Ousmane Sembène." Journal of African Cinemas 1, no. 2 (Dec. 2009): pp. 207-223.
• Dwyer, Kevin. Beyond Casablanca: M. A. Tazi and the Adventure of Moroccan Cinema. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004. [Reviewed by Stacey Renee Davis in International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston) 39, no. 1 (2006): pp. 180-182.]
• Ekoumou Samba, Yolande. NTAPHIL: scénario et images du feuilleton. Yaoundé: Editions Alternative, 2014.
• Fofana, Amadou T. The Films of Ousmane Sembene: Discourse, Politics, and Aesthetics. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2005.
• Frassinelli, Pier Paolo. "Intersecting temporalities, cultural (un)translatability and African film aesthetics: Ntshavheni wa Luruli’s Elelwani." Journal of African Cultural Studies 29, no. 3 (Sept. 2017): pp. 331-344.
• Givanni, June, ed. Symbolic Narratives/African Film: Audiences, Theory and the Moving Image. London: British Film Institute, 2001.
• Haffner, P. "Les cinémas de libération à Tunis: une chronique des 10 journées cinématografique de Carthage, 12-21 octobre, 1984." Peuples Noirs - Peuples Africains 8, no. 45 (1985): pp. 56-75.
• Harrow, Kenneth W. "ASR Forum: What's New in African Cinema?: Introduction." African Studies Review 58, no. 3 (Dec. 2015): pp. 5-11.
• Harrow, Kenneth W. "Manthia Diawara's Waves and the Problem of the 'Authentic'." African Studies Review 58, no. 3 (Dec. 2015): pp. 13-30.
• Harrow, Kenneth W. Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
• Harrow, Kenneth W. Trash: African Cinema from Below. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. [Reviewed by Valérie K. Orlando in African Studies Review 57, no. 1 (April 2014): pp. 222-224.]
• Higgins, MaryEllen. "The Winds of African Cinema." African Studies Review 58, no. 3 (Dec. 2015): pp. 77-92.
• Hodes, Rebecca. "HIV/AIDS in South African Documentary Film, c. 1990-2000." Journal of Southern African Studies (London) 33, no. 1 (2007): pp. 153-171.
• Ilboudo, P. "Etude à propos du Festival Panafricain du Cinéma de Ouagadougou." Peuples Noirs - Peuples Africains 8, no. 44 (1985): pp. 39-51.
• Jedlowski, Alessandro and Michael W. Thomas. "Representing ‘Otherness’ in African Popular Media: Chinese Characters in Ethiopian Video-Films." Journal of African Cultural Studies 29, no. 1 China-Africa Media Interactions: Media and Popular Culture Between Business and State Intervention (2017): pp. 63-80.
• Kealhofer, Leslie. Muslim women in French cinema: voices of Maghrebi migrants in France. Contemporary French and francophone cultures 41. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015.
• Makhubu, Nomusa. "Screening the Fantastic: Citizenship and Postcolonial Theoconomies in African Video-film and Photography." African Identities 15, no. 2 (2017): pp. 208-227.
• Marx, Lesley. "'Cinema, Glamour, Atrocity': Narratives of Trauma." Social Dynamics (Cape Town) 32, no. 2 (2006): pp. 22-49.
• McCluskey, Audrey Thomas. The Devil you Dance with: Film Culture in the New South Africa. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. [Reviewed by Keyan Gray Tomaselli and Astrid Treffry-Goatley in Journal of African Cinemas 2, no. 1 (July 2010): pp. 65-75.]
• Mhando, Martin R. "Globalization and African cinema: distribution and reception in the anglophone region." Journal of African Cinemas 1, no. 1 (Oct. 2009): pp. 19-33.
• Mhando, Martin R. and Laurian Kipeja. "Creative/Cultural industries financing in Africa: A Tanzanian film value chain study." Journal of African Cinemas 2, no. 1 (July 2010): pp. 3-25.
• Mushengyezi, Aaron. "Problematizing a ‘fundamentalist’ ideology: A close analysis of Atef Hetata's The Closed Doors and Phil Mullaly's The Martyrs of Uganda." Journal of African Cinemas 1, no. 2 (Dec. 2009): p. 173-187.
• Niang, Sada. Nationalist African Cinema: Legacy and Transformations. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014.
• Mushengyezi, Aaron. "Reimaging Gender and African Tradition? Ousmane Sembène's 'Xala' Revisited." Africa Today (Bloomington) 51, no. 1 (2004): pp. 47-62.
• Nkunzimana, Obed. "Beyond colonial stereotypes: reflections on postcolonial cinema in the African Great Lakes region." Journal of African Cinemas 1, no. 1 (Oct. 2009): pp. 79-93.
• Ntombela, Nontobeko. “Silent Toyi-Toyis in the Work of Donna Kukama.” n.paradoxa: International Feminist Art Journal 31 (2013): 23-31.
• Orlando, Valérie. Francophone voices of the "new" Morocco in film and print: (Re)presenting a society in transition. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
• Paleker, Gairoonisa. "The State, Citizens and Control: Film and African Audiences in South Africa, 1910–1948." Journal of Southern African Studies 40, no. 2 (March 2014): pp. 309-323.
• Papaioannou, P. Julie. "From orality to visuality: the question of aesthetics in African cinema." Journal of African Cinemas 1, no. 2 (Dec. 2009): p. 141-157.
• Petty, Sheila. "The rise of the African musical: postcolonial disjunction in Karmen Geï and Madame Brouette." Journal of African Cinemas 1, no. 1 (Oct. 2009): pp. 95-111.
• Pfaff, Françoise. "Cinema in Francophone West Africa." Africa Quarterly 22, no. 3 (n.d.): pp. 41-8.
• Pfaff, Françoise. The cinema of Ousmane Sembene, A Pioneer of African Film. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies 79. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.
• Pfaff, Françoise. Focus on African Films. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. [Reviewed by Carmela Garritano in African Studies Review (New Brunswick) 48, no. 2 (Sept. 2005): pp. 179-181. by Odile Cazenave in International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston) 39, no. 1 (2006): pp. 137-138.]
• Prabhu, Anjali. Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2014. [Reviewed by Kathryn Lachman in African Studies Review 60, no. 3 (Dec. 2017): pp. 255-259.]
• Reinwald, Brigitte. "Tonight at the Empire: Cinéma et urbanité à Zanzibar." Afrique & histoire, special issue Villes d'Afrique: Circulation et expressions culturelles edited by Odile Goerg (Paris) 5 (April 2006): pp. ????.
• Reynolds, Glenn. "'From Red Blanket to Civilization': Propaganda and Recruitment Films for South Africa's Gold Mines, 1920-1940." Journal of Southern African Studies (London) 33, no. 1 (2007): pp. 133-152.
• Rosenthal, Mark, ed. William Kentridge: Five Themes. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; West Palm Beach: Norton Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. [Reviewed online by Terri Cohn on CAA Reviews, available to members of CAA at http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/1331.]
• Ryan, Connor. "New Nollywood: A Sketch of Nollywood's Metropolitan New Style." African Studies Review 58, no. 3 (Dec. 2015): pp. 55-76.
• Sibande, Mary. “Artist’s Statement.” n.paradoxa: International Feminist Art Journal 31 (2013): p. 57.
• Stefanson, Blandine. "Renewal in African cinema: genres and aesthetics." Journal of African Cinemas 1, no. 1 (Oct. 2009): pp. 9-17.
• Stefanson, Blandine. "Renewal in African cinema: genres and aesthetics Issue 2: Aesthetics and ideology." Journal of African Cinemas 1, no. 2 (Dec. 2009): p. 139.
• Stefanson, Blandine. "Violence in Souleymane Cissé's films: a cultural perspective." Journal of African Cinemas 1, no. 2 (Dec. 2009): p. 189-205.
• Stefanson, Blandine and Marie Magdeleine Chirol. "Ruin and renewal in Idrissa Ouédraogo's Yaaba." Journal of African Cinemas 1, no. 2 (Dec. 2009): p. 159-171.
• Tchouaffe, Jean-Olivier. Passion of the reel: cinematic versus modernist political fictions in Cameroon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
• Tchouaffe, Jean Olivier. "Reframing African cinema and democracy: the case of Cameroon." Journal of African Cinemas 1, no. 1 (Oct. 2009): pp. 57-77.
• Telmissany, May. La figuration de la hara dans le cinéma égyptien. Ph.D., U. de Montréal, 2005.
• Thackway, Melissa and Jean-Marie Teno. Reel Resistance: The Cinema of Jean-Marie Teno. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: James Currey, 2020.
• Tomaselli, Keyan Gray. "Not Another Media Journal?" Journal of African Cinemas 1, no. 1 (Oct. 2009): pp. 5-7.
• Tomaselli, Keyan Gray, Jonathan Dockney and Sarah Dawson. "Bumping into Reality, Brutal Realism and Bafundi 2009: Some Thoughts on a Student Film Festival." Journal of African Cinemas 1, no. 2 (Dec. 2009): p. 225-233.
• Tuomi, Krista. "The South African Feature Film Industry: A Comparative Analysis." Social Dynamics (Cape Town) 32, no. 2 (2006): pp. 81-110.
• Ukadike, Nwachukwu Frank. Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse. Lanham, MD. Lexington Books, 2014.
• van Staden, Cobus. "Watching Hong Kong Martial Arts Film Under Apartheid." Journal of African Cultural Studies 29, no. 1 China-Africa Media Interactions: Media and Popular Culture Between Business and State Intervention (2017): pp. 46-62.
• Yewah, Emmanuel. "Cinema and social discourse in Cameroon." Research in African Literatures 38, no. 3 (Fall2007 2007): pp. 199-201.