Manthia Diawara’s Waves and the Problem of the “Authentic”

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1555-2462|58|3|13-30

ISSN: 0002-0206

Source: African Studies Review, Vol.58, Iss.3, 2015-11, pp. : 13-30

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Abstract

This article begins by tracking how the delineation of “New Cinema” in the recent work of Manthia Diawara differs significantly from the approaches that had been dominant when he published his initial study on African cinema in 1992. The changes lead us to position current filmmaking practices vis-à-vis Nollywood film, and to ask how the formation of the cinematic subject functions in contemporary “new waves” of cinema.