Jean Olivier Tchouaffe: 2 books
Passion of the Reel
Cinematic versus Modernist Political Fictions in Cameroon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Highlighting the challenges faced by a nascent national cinema with limited resources, Passion of the Reelprovides an in-depth analysis of the output of the Cameroonian film industry. Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe shows that, far from an empty receptacle for colonial legacies, Cameroon – and Africa –...
by Olivier-Jean Tchouaffe
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
The Poetics of Radical Hope: The Abderrhamane Sissako Experience communicates pieces of evidence that Sissako is the most talented and the most sophisticated filmmaker of his generation. This imaginative excellence emanates from new aspirations to fashion an original African cinematic aesthetic for...