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Contents Preface: Out with the Authentic, In with the Wazimamoto Acknowledgments Introduction: The Creation of a Cinema Engagé 1. Did We Get Off to the Wrong Start? Toward an Aesthetic of Surface versus Depth 2. Sembène's Xala, the Fetish, and the Failed Trickster 3. Cameroonian Cinema: Ba Kobhio, Teno, and the Technologies of Power 4. From Jalopy to Goddess: Quartier Mozart, Faat Kine, and Divine carcasse 5. Toward a [Z,HAC]i[z,HAC]ekian Reading of African Cinema 6. Aristotle's Plot: What's Inside the Can? 7. Finye: The Fantasmic Support 8. Hyenas: Truth, Badiou's Ethics, and the Return of the Void 9. Toward a Postmodern African Cinema: Fanta Nacro's "Un Certain matin" and Djibril Diop Mambéty's Parlons Grand-Mère Notes Filmography Bibliography Index
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Motion pictures -- Africa.