[Commlist] Journal of African Cinemas 17.1-2 published - Special Issue on Marginality and Fragility in African Cinemas

Intellect is pleased to present Journal of African Cinemas 17.1-2!


Special Issue: ‘Marginality and Fragility in African Cinemas’


For over a half century, filmmakers on the African continent and in the 
diaspora have contended with the legacies of colonial policies and their 
marginalizing effects on the people, spaces and cultures of the 
continent. Using film, they have repeatedly argued that fragilization 
and marginalization of Africans provided the mainstay of colonial 
conquest and domination. Whether the French civilizing mission or the 
British Indirect rule, the aim was to push local African populations to 
the sidelines of their own lives, territories and histories. Thus, as 
directors, militant artists and critics, filmmakers undertook to 
accelerate the process of invalidating various types of social 
exclusion, foster new agencies, suggest new identities and promote new 
societies. The papers in this collection address the film aesthetics and 
discursive strategies adopted by filmmakers from different parts of the 
continent to dissect and counter such marginalizations.


For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-african-cinemas 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-african-cinemas>


Aims & Scope


The Journal of African Cinemasexplores the interactions of visual and 
verbal narratives in films from and about Africa, no matter where they 
are made. It encourages studies about production, reception and 
audiences, interpretation and theory, and history and technology. The 
journal recognises the shifting paradigms that have defined and continue 
to define African cinemas in relation to cinema everywhere, within 
diverse African languages and cultures. The editors invite papers on the 
perception and identity/identities of Africa and its peoples represented 
in film, in isolation or relation to other cinemas globally. The journal 
aims to create a forum for debate that will promote inter-disciplinarity 
between cinema and other visual and rhetorical forms of representation.


This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging 
Sources Citation Index (ESCI).


Issue 17.1-2


Editorial


‘Marginality and Fragility in African Cinemas’ 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jac_00142_2>

SADA NIANG, SUZANNE CROSTA AND ALEXIE TCHEUYAP


Research Articles


Pidgin Englishes, marginality and fragility in Nollywood cinema: 
Exploring language, culture and storytelling 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jac_00129_1>

BEN AKOH


‘I film to keep a memory’: Autobiography as a collective experience and 
production of alterities in Nous, by Alice Diop 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jac_00132_1>

ANA CAMILA ESTEVES AND GABRIELA MACHADO RAMOS DE ALMEIDA


Women, location and aesthetics in African films 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jac_00136_1>

DANIELA RICCI


Migrant women’s agency and the responsibility towards the other in B. 
Lojkine’s film Hope 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jac_00133_1>

YAHYA LAAYOUNI


L’amour/la mort: The fragility of life in Mahamat Saleh Haroun’s A 
Season in France 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jac_00131_1>

VLAD DIMA


Alter(ing)native narratives: Agency, human rights and an ‘aesthetics of 
commitment’ in African films 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jac_00135_1>

BABATUNDE ONIKOYI AND SHEILA PETTY


Recentring marginality: Sili’s abilities in La petite vendeuse de soleil 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jac_00137_1>

ESTRELLA SENDRA


Speculation on the sun: The metamorphoses of the female leads in the 
films of Djibril Diop Mambéty 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jac_00139_1>

KYLE WANBERG


The treasonous state and postcolonial precarity: Femi Odugbemi’s Makoko 
as ‘victim documentary’ 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jac_00138_1>

PAUL USHANG UGOR


Ecological fragility and contemporary African documentaries 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jac_00130_1>

SUZANNE CROSTA


Mourning and loss in four documentary films 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jac_00134_1>

SADA NIANG


Book Review


Crisis Urbanism and Postcolonial African Cities in Postmillennial 
Cinema, Addamms Mututa (2022) 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jac_00140_5>

CARA MOYER-DUNCAN


Film Review


Milisuthando, Milisuthando Bongela (dir.) (2023), South Africa: 
Multitude Films 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jac_00141_4>

ADDAMMS MUTUTA


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