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Afrique, Je Te Plumerai |
Algeria 1954 | Amistad |
Art of the Dogon
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AFRIQUE,
JE TE PLUMERAI
(1992)
(trans.
AFRICA, I WILL FLEECE YOU or PLUCK YOU)
Feature
(Anti-)Documentary
Cora has ordered the DVD version
from California Newsreel, 10/26/09.
COCC Campus Library Location: I.M.S. Audiovisual;
Call No.:
DT572 .A35 1992
Afrique-- je te plumerai [videorecording] = Africa, I will
fleece you / un film de Jean-Marie Teno.
San Francisco, CA
: California Newsreel, c1992.
California Newsreel:
http://www.newsreel.org/films/afrique.htm
Internet Movie Database:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106225/
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Afrique: je te
plumerai [English: "Africa: I Will Fleece You"]. Dir., Prod., &
Narr.: Jean-Marie Téno.
[Videotape.] California Newsreel, 1992.
Director:
Jean-Marie Teno. Cameroon, 1992.
California Newsreel:
Library
of African Cinema. In French with
English subtitles. 88 minutes. |
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Learn more: Dye, Michael. "Street Sounds: The Changing Face of Colonialization." [Rev. of Afrique, Je Te Plumerai.] 1998. Long Reviews. Culture, Communication & Media Studies - CCMS: African Cinema & TV. Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. 2001. 21 Aug. 2004 <http://www.nu.ac.za/ccms/amp/longreviews.asp?ID=57>. Téno, Jean-Marie. "Imagining Alternatives: African Cinema in the Year 2000." California Newsreel. 21 Aug. 2004 <http://www.newsreel.org/articles/teno.htm>. |
ALGERIA
1954: REVOLT OF A COLONY
(1991)
Documentary Short
COCC Campus Library Location: I.M.S. Audiovisual;
Call No.
DT280.2 .A43 1991
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Algeria 1954 [videorecording] : revolt of a colony /
Marc Ferro. |
AMISTAD
(1997)
Feature/Historical
Fiction - African Diaspora
COCC Campus Library Location: I.M.S. Audiovisual;
Call No.
E447 .A65 1998
"Amistad (1997),"
Internet
Movie Database:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118607/
External Reviews for Amistad:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118607/externalreviews
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Amistad [videorecording] / [presented by] DreamWorks Pictures in
association with HBO Pictures ; produced by Steven Spielberg, Debbie
Allen, Colin Wilson ; written by David Franzoni ; directed by Steven
Spielberg.
Amistad. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Perf.
Djimon Hounsou,
Morgan Freeman, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins.
[Videotape.] DreamWorks
SKG-Home Box Office, USA, 1997.
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Learn more: Agatucci, Cora. HUM 211 Course Pack - Fall 2004: Amistad: The True Story & the Film http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/Amistad.htm
Exploring Amistad at Mystic Seaport:
The
Museum of America and the Sea |
THE
ART OF THE DOGON
(1988)
Documentary Short
COCC Campus Library Location: I.M.S. Audiovisual;
Call No. N7399.M3 A781 1988v
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The Art of the Dogon [videorecording] / the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Office of Film and Television ; produced and directed by John Goberman, Marc
Bauman. Dir. & Prod. John Goberman and Marc Bauman. Wr. David Keaton. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Office of Film and Television- Home Vision, 1988. [Produced in conjunction with an exhibition from the collection of Lester Wunderman.] 24 min. Summary: "Attempts to capture the beauty and power of Dogon art while placing it in context within Dogon beliefs and culture." |
CHINUA ACHEBE: A WORLD OF IDEAS
(1989; 1994)
Documentary Short / Interview
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PBS Video, Public Affairs Television, WNET/New York and
WWTTW/Chicago, Alexandria, VA; 1989. Films for the Humanities,
1994. 28 min. Film Summary: From The Moyers Collection comes this insightful videotaped interview with Chinua Achebe, originally filmed for Bill Moyers' PBS television series A World of Ideas (1989). Achebe discusses the role of the African storyteller, one who hears the music of history and weaves the fabric of memory, one obliged to be the people's collective sometimes to offend "the Emperor" in so doing. "It is the storyteller... who makes us who we are, that creates history." A man caught between two worlds, Achebe discusses his observations and criticisms of both African and Western politics and culture, the stages in his awakening to inaccurate and demeaning depictions of black Africans in works such as Conrad's Heart of Darkness, to his closing advice that the West: "listen to the weak." |
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Learn more: Agatucci, Cora. African Authors: Chinua Achebe - Table of Contents http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/achebe.htm Agatucci, Cora. HUM 211 Course Pack - Fall 2004: Things Fall Apart Study Guide (Fall 2004 Course Pack): http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/TFA.htm Achebe in His Own Words (Fall 2004 Course Pack): http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/achebewords.htm |
CHOCOLAT
(1988)
Feature Fiction
COCC Campus Library Location: I.M.S. Audiovisual;
Call No.
PN1995.9.F67 C4647 1990
Chocolat [videorecording]
/ Alain Belmondo et Gerard Crosnier ; Marin Karmitz, MK2 ; un film
de Clair Denis.
[New York] : Orion
Home Video, [1990], c1988.
Internet Movie
Database:
Chocolat (1988):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094868/
External Reviews:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094868/externalreviews
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Dir. Claire Denis. Prod. Alain Belmondo et Gerard
Crosnier. Co-producers: Cinemanuel, MK2 Productions, Cerito Films, La S.E.P.T., Caroline
Productions, Le F.O.D.I.C. Cameroun, Wim Wenders Produktion
Berlin, TFI Films Production, 1988. Wr. Claire Denis and Jean-Pol
Fargeau. Perf. Giulia Boschi, Isaach de Bankole, François Cluzet,
Cecile Ducasse, Mireille Perrier. Video: Orion Classics, 1990. In French
with English subtitles. 105 min.
Rated: PG-13.
Film Summary: Claire Denis’ award-winning autobiographical film traces a white woman’s return to her youth in pre-independence French Cameroon, haunted by wounding memories of black African Protee, the family's "houseboy" and a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty. Chocolat is a stirring & subtle examination of intricate relationships in a racist society and the human damage exacted on both the colonized and colonizer. |
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Learn more:
Yahnke, Robert E. (Professor of film studies, General College, Univ. of Minnesota-Minneapolis, MN). “Film Summary: Chocolat 1989; Dir. Claire Denis.” 2001. 21 Aug. 2004 <http://www.tc.umn.edu/~yahnk001/filmteach/choco-v.htm>.
Agatucci, Cora. Chocolat
Film Guide & Resources:
HUM 211 Course
Pack - Fall 2004. |
CRY
FREEDOM
(1987)
Feature / Historical Fiction
Internet Movie
Database:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092804/
External Reviews:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092804/externalreviews
| Film Summary: Richard Attenborough’s 1987 riveting story of black activist Stephen Biko (Denzel Washington) and liberal white newspaper editor Donald Woods (Kevin Kline). Woods undertakes a perilous quest to expose the horrors of apartheid, escape South Africa, and bring Biko’s remarkable tale of courage to the world. Cry Freedom..."The true story of the friendship that shook South Africa and awakened the world." |
(THE)
DUTCH IN SOUTH AFRICA
Documentary
EVERYONE'S
CHILD
(1996)
Feature / Fiction
COCC Campus Library Location: I.M.S. Audiovisual;
Call No.
PN1997
.E96 1996
Everyone's child [videorecording] /Media for
Development Trust production; screenplay by John Riber, Andrew Whaley,
and Tsitsi Dangarembga;
produced by Jonny Persey, John Riber, Ben Zulu;
directed by Tsitsi Dangarembga
California Newsreel:
http://www.newsreel.org/films/everyone.htm
Internet Movie Database:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116243/
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Dir. Tsitsi Dangarembga. Prod.
Media for Development Trust, Zimbabwe, 1996. Prod. Jonny
Persey, John Riber, Ben Zulu. Wr. Shimmer Chinodya, Tsitsi
Dangarembga, John Riber, Andrew Whaley. Perf. Elizjah
Madzikatire, Nomsa Mlambo, Walter Muparutsa, Killness Nyati,
Chunky Phiri, Thulani Sandhla, Simon Shumba.
Videotape. San Francisco: Library of African Cinema,
California Newsreel, distributor; 1996. Film Summary: From Zimbabwe's Media for Development Trust comes Everyone's Child (1996, in English, 90 min.), directed by Tsitsi Dangarembga and dramatizing the tragic story of one Zimbabwean family devastated by AIDS. When both parents die of AIDS, Itai, Tamari, Norah, and Nhamo are left to fend for themselves, and the eldest children are forced to take the limited unsavory options open to them. It takes the tragic death of the youngest to recall family head and community to their traditional responsibilities and realize these are everyone's children. Now, more than ever, "it takes a village to raise a child," with some 10 million African children predicted to be orphaned by AIDS by the year 2000, and millions of others left homeless by civil wars or abandoned by parents who cannot support them. California Newsreel: http://www.newsreel.org/films/everyone.htm |
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Learn more: Agatucci, Cora. Hum 211 Fall 2004 Course Pack: Tsitsi Dangarembga & Nervous Conditions http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/dangarembga.htm
Tsitsi Dangarembga, by Rebecca Grady, 1997, Tsitsi
Dangarembga (b. 1959) |
Garth Fagan's
GRIOT NEW YORK
(1995)
Documentary
/ Interviews & Performance
- African Diaspora
COCC Campus Library Location: I.M.S. Audiovisual;
Call No.
GV1790.G75 G25 1995
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Garth Fagan's Griot New York [videorecording] / a Thirteen/WNET
production in association with Sony Classical Film & Video.
Interviewees: Garth Fagan and Wynton Marsalis; performers:
Garth Fagan Dance (Norwood Pennewell, Natalie Rogers, featured dancers) and
Wynton Marsalis Septet. New York, N.Y. : Sony Classical Film & Video, c1995. 1 videocassette (85 min.) : |
| Film Summary: Following brief interviews with Garth Fagan and Wynton Marsalis, the program includes a complete performance of Griot New York. The concept of a griot, a West African storyteller who keeps the cultural heritage of a people alive, is used to depict the non-European culture of New York City, and particularly the African and Caribbean backgrounds of some of its residents. |
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Learn
More: Great Performances: Free to Dance (PBS Online): http://www.pbs.org/wnet/freetodance/index.html "'DANCE IN AMERICA' presents 'Free To Dance' a three-part documentary that chronicles the crucial role that African-American choreographers and dancers have played in the development of modern dance as an American art form. Tracing this phenomenon against the backdrop of America's social, political, and cultural landscape, the series captures the struggle for artistic freedom and spotlights the genius created by cultural synergy. "Without the African contribution, we would not have had American dance as we know it," says author Katrina Hazzard Donald." Episode 3, "Go for What You Know," includes Garth Fagan's "Griot New York." |
HIDDEN
FACES
(1990)
Documentary
COCC Campus Library Location: I.M.S. Audiovisual;
Call No.
HQ1793 .H52
Women Make Movies:
http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c43.htm
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Hidden faces [videorecording] / Channel 4 ; produced and directed by
Kim Longinotto and Clair Hunt with Safaa Fathay.
New York, N.Y. : Women Make Movies, [1993?].
Originally produced as documentary film in G.B. in 1990. Film Summary: Award-winning Hidden Faces (1990; 52 min.) is a fascinating collaborative documentary featuring Safaa Fathay, a young Egyptian woman living in Paris, who journeys home to make a film about famed feminist activist and writer Nawal El Saadawi. Disillusioned with her encounter, however, Fathay goes on to explore her family’s past and the tensions between tradition and modernity facing women of the Arab world (filmed in Cairo, El Minia, and rural villages of Egypt). Women Make Movies: http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c43.htm
Hidden Faces (1990, co-directed with Claire Hunt, 52
min.) Of related interest: Three
Arab Women Documentary Filmmakers: |
I IS A
LONG MEMORIED WOMAN
(1990)
Documentary/Feature: Dance/Drama &
Interview
- African Diaspora
COCC Campus Library Location: I.M.S. Audiovisual;
Call No.
F2191.B55
I18
is a long memoried woman
[videorecording] / based on a collection of poems by
Grace Nicols; produced by Ingrid Lewis;
directed by
Frances-Anne Solomon; a Leda Serene/Yod Video
production. New York : Women Make Movies,
1990.
Leda Serene:
http://www.ledaserene.com/refrms.html
Women Make Movies:
http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c90.htm
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I Is a Long Memoried Woman. Dir.
Frances-Anne Solomon.
Prod. Ingrid Lewis. Narr. & Perf. Adjoa Andoh and Leonie Forbes.
LedaSerene/Women Make Movies, 1990. [Videotape.]
LedaSerene/Yod Video, 1991. In Creole and English. Runtime: 50 min. Audience: High School to Adult. Film Summary: Out of the abusive conditions of the new world sugar plantations, this unforgettable 1990 film of the African Diaspora, directed by Frances-Anne Solomon, offers a powerful rendering of female slavery and defiance, survival and strength, in dance-drama performance. The film presents a young African-Caribbean woman's quest for survival and freedom in evocative dance, griotte-style monologue & song. Inter-segments present readings and commentary by Grace Nichols, on whose award-winning poetry the film is based. I is a Long-Memoried Woman, published in 1983 (London: Karnak House), was Nichols' first collection of poetry, and won Nichols the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. The film adaptation was a Gold Award winner at the International Film and Television Festival of New York. I is a long memoried woman (London: Karnak House, 1983), the book of poetry on which the film is based, won Grace Nichols the 1983 Commonwealth Poetry Prize. |
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Agatucci, Cora. HUM 211 Fall
2004 Course Pack: I Is a Long Memoried Woman Film Notes & Study Guide http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/womanfilmnotes.htm |
IN
SEARCH OF HUMAN ORIGINS
(1994)
Documentary
COCC Campus Library Location: I.M.S. Audiovisual;
Call
No. GN283.25 .J652 (3 videotapes)
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In search of human origins [videorecording] / written and
produced by Michael Gunton. Narr. & Perf. Don Johanson. Boston, Mass.
: WGBH Educational Foundation, 1994. 3 videocassettes: 180 min. Originally produced as a segment for PBS television series Nova in June, 1997. Film Summary: Episode 1: The story of Lucy. In 1974, Johanson unearthed Lucy, at almost 3 million years of age, our oldest human ancestor. Lucy's tiny three-and-a-half-foot skeleton set the world of paleoanthropology on its ear. Lucy walked upright and it was proven that a larger brain was the key difference between early man and the ape. Episode 2: Surviving in Africa. Johanson sets out to disprove the long-cherished view that early man's larger brain and reliance on technology are the by-products of the ability to hunt. He embarks on a journey across the Serengeti savanna of East Africa in search of food. He finds it- not by hunting but by scavenging off the leftovers of lions and leopards. Episode 3: The creative revolution. Fifty thousand years ago, a dramatic change swept through the hunter-gatherers then living in Africa. They began to paint, carve, talk, bury their dead, travel and trade. What accounts for this sudden transformation? This question continues to be at the heart of heated debates. |
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Learn more: PBS Online: Nova - Transcripts: Episode 1: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2106hum1.html Episode 2: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2107hum2.html Episode 3: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2108hum3.html |
KEITA: THE HERITAGE OF THE GRIOT
(1994)
Feature/Historical Fiction
Cora has obtained the DVD
version from California Newsreel, 10/26/09.
COCC Campus Library Location: I.M.S. Audiovisual;
Call
No. GR352.8 .K45 1994
Keïta!, l'héritage du griot [videorecording] =
Keita!, the heritage of the griot
AFIX Productions ; Les Productions de la Lanterne; Sahélis
Productions ; L'E tat de Burkina.
San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel, 1994.
[Above Keita Links updated 1 Jan. 2010, C. Agatucci]
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Keita: Heritage of the Griot
[French:
Keita! L'héritage du griot].
Dir. Dani Kouyaté.
Perf. Seydou Boro, Hamed Dicko, Abdoulaye Komboudri, and Sotigui Kouyaté.
[Videotape.] Afix Productions-California Newsreel, 1994. In Jula and French, with English subtitles; Run time: 94 min. Film Summary: A djeliba (master griot or bard) arrives mysteriously to teach young Mabo Keita "the meaning of his name," revealing the story of his ancestor Sundjata Keita, the legendary 13th century founder of the great Mali Empire. In the process, boy and griot come into conflict with Mabo’s Westernized mother and schoolteacher, who have rejected African traditional ways and beliefs. Director Dani Kouyate (Burkina Faso) introduces Western viewers, along with Mabo, to one of the great epics and heroes of African oral tradition, framing the dramatization of Sundjata within the story of a contemporary young African’s initiation into the history of his family. (Burkina Faso/France, 1994; in Jula and French with English subtitles. From Library of African Cinema, California Newsreel, distributor.) |
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Learn more: Agatucci, Cora. HUM 211 Fall 2004 Course Pack: Keita Film Notes: http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/Keitafilmnotes.htm Epic of Sundjata: http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/sundjata.htm "Keita: The Heritage of the Griot: Notes for Viewing the Film." [Facilitator Guide.] Library of African Cinema, California Newsreel. 11 August 2004 <http://www.newsreel.org/guides/keita.htm>. |
MAPANTSULA
(Hustler)
(1988)
Feature / Fiction
California Newsreel:
http://www.newsreel.org/films/mapantsu.htm
or
http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0058
Internet Movie Database:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0095587/
| Film Summary: The first anti-apartheid film
by, for and about black South Africans,
Mapantsula (review from California
Newsreel) was filmed inside Soweto and scored to the urban beat
of “Township Jive” by directors Thomas Mogotlane and Oliver Schmitz, who deceived
South African authorities into believing they were shooting a
conventional gangster movie. Instead Mogotlane and Schmitz made
an uncompromisingly honest anti-apartheid film endorsed by the
ANC, banned by South African censors and acclaimed at film
festivals worldwide. Panic, the central character (and acted by
Thomas Mogotlane), is a mapantsula, Zulu
term for petty crook and a popular rebellious figure in urban
folklore and fiction. The 1988 film traces Panic’s
transformation from irresponsible individualist to a man
compelled to take a stand against an unjust system. (In English, Sotho and Afrikaans, with English subtitles.) 100 min. Library of African Cinema, California Newsreel: http://www.newsreel.org/films/mapantsu.htm Mapantsula. Cross-Cultural Film Guide, by Patricia Aufderheide, The American University. 1992. 21 Aug. 2004 <http://www.library.american.edu/subject/media/aufderheide/mapantsu.html>. |
"MASTER
HAROLD"...AND
THE BOYS
(1985)
Feature / Televised Stage Play
Internet Movie Database:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0089564/
| Film Summary: This critically-acclaimed film (1985) of Athol Fugard’s
confessional drama depicts a white adolescent’s personal
initiation in the abuses of racial power during a long afternoon
of crisis and revelation. Set in a 1950 tea room in apartheid-era
South Africa, "Master
Harold"...and the Boys delves into the
special relationship between Hally ("Master Harold,"
played by Matthew Broderick), and Willy and Sam ("the
boys" who work for Hally’s family, played by celebrated
black South African actors Zakes Mokae
and John
Kani). Lorimar Pictures. In English. Run time: 89 min. First produced at the Yale Repertory Theater in 1982; earned the Drama Desk Award and Critics Circle Award for best play in 1983, and London's Evening Standard Award in 1984. Brians, Paul (Dept. of English, Washington State Univ.- Pullman). Athol Fugard: "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys [Study Guide]. 1996; 1997. Aug. 21 2004 <http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/anglophone/fugard.html>. e-notes.com. Master Harold
… and the Boys | Introduction. 2000-2004. Aug. 21 2004 Talkin' Broadway Review: Master Harold...and the boys, rev. by Matthew Murray, 1 June 2003. 21 Aug. 2004 <http://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/MasterHarold.html>. |
MOUNTAINS
OF THE MOON
(1990)
Feature / Historical Fiction
Internet Movie Database:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0100196/
External Reviews:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0100196/externalreviews
| Tri-Star Pictures presents
a film directed by Bob Rafelson and produced by Daniel Melnick.
Written by William Harrison and Rafelson. Photographed by
Roger Deakins. Edited by Thom Noble. Music by Michael Small.
Run time: 136 min. RATED: R. Film Summary: Bob Rafelson directed this powerful epic of explorers John Hanning Speke and Sir Richard Francis Burton’s quest to find the source of the River Nile during the mid-19th century. Spectacular adventure studs Mountains of the Moon (1990) based on William Harrison’s novel. |
MYSTERIES
OF MANKIND
(1988; 1992)
Documentary
COCC Campus Library Location: I.M.S. Audiovisual;
Call
No. GN281 .M97 1992
| Mysteries of Mankind
[videorecording]
/ produced by the National Geographic Society and WQED Pittsburgh ; written and
produced by Barbara Jampel.
Photography, Erik Daarstad et al.; editor, John Dabney;
narrator, Richard Kiley; music, Scott Harper.
Originally
broadcast as a National Geographic Society special.
[Washington, D.C.]
: The Society, Distributed by Columbia Tristar Home Video, [1992], c1988. 1 videocassette: 60 min. Film Summary: Traces anthropological research in human evolution, beginning with discoveries in Africa of australopithecine bones, the Leakeys' discoveries in the African Rift Valley and Olduvai Gorge, and Johanson's work in Hadar, Ethiopia. Includes discussion of dating techniques such as laser dating and the search for a common ancestor. |
ORFEU
NEGRO [BLACK ORPHEUS]
(1959; 1990)
Feature / Fiction
- African Diaspora
COCC Campus Library Location: I.M.S. Audiovisual;
Call
No. PN1995.9.F67 O74 1990
Internet Movie
Database:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/
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Black
orpheus [videorecording] = Orfeu negro / a Sacha Gordine production
; original screenplay, Jacques Viot ; a Franco-Italian coproduction,
Dispatfilm Gemma Cinematografica with Tupan Filmes ; directed by
Marcel Camus.
Inspired from the play
Orfeu da conceição by
Vinícius de Moraes.
Originally issued as motion picture in 1959. 1
videocassette: 103 min. [United States] : Janus Films collection, Home Vision, [199-?] . In Portuguese with English subtitles. Plot Outline: "A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro." Internet Movie Database: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/ Plot Summary for Orfeu Negro: "In Rio, Orfeo is a trolley conductor and musician, engaged to Mira. During Carnival week, he sees Eurydice, who's fled her village in fear of a stalker; it's love at first sight. Her cousin Sarafina, with whom she stays in Rio, is a friend of Orfeo and Mira, so the star-crossed lovers meet again. Later, during the revels, wearing Sarafina's costume, Eurydice dances a provocative samba with Orfeo. Not only is Mira enraged when her rival is unmasked, but the stalker, dressed as Death, appears: Eurydice is in danger, pursued through noisy crowds and a morgue. Can Orfeo conduct her to safety? Don't look back." Internet Movie Database: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/plotsummary |
REASSEMBLAGE:
From the Firelight to the Screen
(1982)
(Anti-)Documentary
COCC Campus Library Location: I.M.S. Audiovisual;
Call
No. HQ1814.5
.R42 1982
Women Make Movies:
http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c52.htm
| Reassemblage [videorecording]
: from the firelight to the screen / a film by Trinh T.
Minh-hà. 1 videocassette: 40 min. New York, NY : Distributed by Women Make Movies, c1982. Film Summary: Reassemblage (40 min.) is innovative filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha’s 1982 complex visual study of the women of rural Senegal. Disjunctive editing, lush cinematography, & probing narration challenge the premises of conventional ethnographic filmmaking while offering an unforgettable experience of Senegalese beauty, hardship, & integrity. |
SOUTH
AFRICA BELONGS TO US
(1980)
Documentary
COCC Campus Library Location: I.M.S. Audiovisual;
Call
No. HQ1800.5 .S68 1980
California Newsreel:
http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0087
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South Africa belongs to us [videorecording] / a film by Chris
Austin, Peter Chappell, Ruth Weiss ; Gerhard Schmidt Produktion in
association with W.D.R. [60 min.] New York : Icarus Films c1980. 1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) Film Summary: "This intimate portrait of five typical black South African women reveals the dehumanizing reality of life under apartheid. The personal stories of a wife left behind in the homelands, a hospital cleaner living in a single-sex hostel, a public health nurse from Soweto, a domestic servant and a leader of a squatters' camp, still provide the best introduction on film to the daily violence wreaked by apartheid on family life and the social fabric. At the same time, these five women's resilience demonstrate the strength which will be able to build a new South Africa." California Newsreel: http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0087 |
TRADING
IN AFRICANS: THE DUTCH OUTPOST IN WEST AFRICA
Documentary
TUNISIA
& MOROCCO:
Struggle for North African Independence
(1991)
Documentary Short
COCC Campus Library Location: I.M.S. Audiovisual;
Call
No. DT264.27 .T84 1991
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Tunisia and Morocco [videorecording] : struggle for North African independence / a film by Marie-Louise Derrien, Marc Ferro. Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, 1991. 16 min. |
WARRIOR
MARKS
(1993)
Documentary
COCC Campus Library Location: I.M.S. Audiovisual;
Call
No. GN484 .W3521 1993
Women Make Movies:
http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c49.htm
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Warrior marks [videorecording] / a Hauer Rawlence Production in
association with Our Daughters Have Mothers, Inc. for Channel 4 ;
producer and director, Pratibha Parmar. Perf. Alice Walker. Book of the same title: Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women. Ed. Alice Walker, Pratibha Parmar, and Vicki Austin-Smith. Harvest Books; Reprint edition (February 28, 1996). ISBN: 0156002140 -- Amazon.com's synopses of the book |
WEND
KUUNI
(God's Gift)
(1982)
Feature / Fiction
California Newsreel:
http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0105
| Film Summary: International award-winner Wend Kuuni
("God's Gift"; Burkina Faso, 1982; 70 min.),
directed by Gaston Kabore, offers a "gentle fable" of a
mute, memoryless orphan found and adopted by a village. Renamed
"Wend Kuuni," or "God's Gift," the boy finds
real community and recovers his ability to communicate among
adopted family and village, even as flashbacks ironically reveal
his mother's fate after rejection by her native community. Set
before the coming of Islam and Christianity, unveiled through the
rhythmic compositions of African oral storytelling, Kabore's
fable offers lessons for contemporary Burkina Faso: traditional
Mossi values yet have the power to heal and unify a modern African state torn by
dislocation, refugees, and social conflict. La Direction du Cinema; Kino Video/California Newsreel's Library of African Cinema. In Moré with English subtitles. Run time: 70 min. Wend Kuuni. Cross-Cultural Film Guide, by Patricia Aufderheide, The American University. 1992. 21 Aug. 2004 <http://www.library.american.edu/subject/media/aufderheide/wend.html>. |
YEELEN
(1987)
("BRIGHTNESS" or
"THE LIGHT")
Feature / Fiction
Internet Movie Database:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094349/
External Reviews:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094349/externalreviews
| Film Summary: Director Souleymane Cisse’s acclaimed film (Mali,
1987), set during the era of the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th
century, adapts one the great oral epics of the Bambara people of
West Africa. The young warrior Nianankoro, carrying powerful
ancestral secrets of knowledge and light, defies his vengeful
father and the secret Komo society. Nianankoro’s
initiation quest takes him across Bambara, Fulani, and Dogon
lands to his destiny: destruction of a corrupt older society and
the inauguration of a new purified world order. In Cisse’s
distinctly African "science fiction," the future
inevitably lies in the past. Yeelen captures the Bambara
belief in circular time, returning always to the creation moment
of "brightness." Winner of the 1987 Cannes Film
Festival Jury Prize. In Bambara, with English subtitles. Run time: 105 min. [NO LONGER AVAILABLE from California Newsreel, as of August 2004 ~ CA] Yeelen. Cross-Cultural Film Guide, by Patricia Aufderheide, American University. 1992. Aug. 2004 <http://www.library.american.edu/subject/media/aufderheide/yeelen.html>. |
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR from: James Leahy, "Stories of the Past--Soulemane Cisse" (p. 348) and "Yeelen (The Light" (pp. 343-344), both in Monthly Film Bulletin (of the British Film Institute, London) 55.658 (Nov. 1988).
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