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African Cinema

African Cinema

Examine how the post-independent generation (Armes , 2006 ) African filmmakers , in charting new representational trajectories , complicate the definitions of African cinema

The art of film making was introduced in Africa in 1920 's but it was after almost 40 years that the surfacing of African film makers came into play . It was also during those times that the films reflected the social and the political realities to the Africans who were in the verge of attaining independence from their colonizers . The themes were usually centered on nation building and the

slashing down of colonial oppression

To start off with a analyzing the differences and the influences of the colonial and post-independent film making , it is wise to describe the previous film making scenes . The film making industry scenario was highly influenced with the highlight of colonial sensibility as the main issue , later it then centered more on the stylistic nature of the art and with emphasis on abstraction and lastly , it evolved into the center theme for independence and opinions on the wide spectrum of the effects of colonialism

In the early 1970 's the trend of the film making industry maintained an aggressive approach towards the promotion of sociopolitical freedom from colonial mentalities but it also showed signs of revolutionary patterns such as the philosophies of communism , socialism and capitalism . Because of these themes that emerge in the African films , this further pushed forth for the exploration of various political systems and ideologies that gave rise to the...

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