Lizelle Bisschoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 636895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lizelle Bisschoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lizelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Bisschoff |
| SIGNATURE | BISSCHOFF L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5820-0377 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
New Directions in African Film Studies
This review essay examines three recent contributions to African film studies: Lokangaka Losambe’s Postcolonial Agency in African and Diasporic Literature and Film, Lindsey B. Green-Simms’s Queer African Cinemas, and Matthew H. Brown’s Indirect Subjects: Nollywood’s Local Address. Each book proposes a distinctive framework for interpreting African screen media, addressing questions of agency, subjectivity and modernity. The essay explores how the…
Lindiwe Dovey, Out of the Box
No abstract available
African Cyborgs
African feminist writers argue black female bodies should be understood as interactions between materiality and the symbolic constructions of the body embedded within a given culture. They caution that an overemphasis on corporeality and embodiment denies subjectivity to black women. Responding to such concerns, contemporary African cultural and creative practitioners offer alternatives to continuing objectification and bodily stereotyping. In th…
Women in African Cinema
Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic showcases the very prolific but often marginalised presence of women in African cinema, both on the screen and behind the camera. This study provides the first in-depth and sustained study of women in African cinema. Films by women from different geographical regions are discussed in case studies that are framed by feminist theoretical and historical themes, and seen through an anti-colonial, philo…
Africa's Lost Classics
The future is digital
No abstract available
Cinema in East Africa
From Nollywood to New Nollywood
From stories about cult and witchcraft to heartbreak and sorrow, Nigeria's Nollywood has developed into Africa's giant in filmmaking
African sport in the global arena
Africa's Lost Classics
Until recently, the story of African film was marked by a series of truncated histories: many outstanding films from earlier decades were virtually inaccessible and thus often excluded from critical accounts. However, various conservation projects since the turn of the century have now begun to make many of these films available to critics and audiences in a way that was unimaginable just a decade ago. In this accessible and lively collection of …
The emergence of women’s film-making in francophone sub-Saharan Africa
The socially and politically committed films of francophone West Africa have for decades been incorporating progressive representations of African women. Although female directors are hugely underrepresented in West African film-making, as they are the world over, the last two decades have seen the gradual emergence of female directors in francophone West Africa. An increasing number of women in francophone West Africa are directing their own fil…
Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival 2011
Africa in Motion (AiM) is an annual African film festival taking place in Edinburgh, primarily at Filmhouse Cinema, Edinburgh's premiere independent and arthouse cinema. The sixth edition of Africa
Visions of female emancipation
Although female directors are hugely underrepresented in the West African film industries, as is the case in film industries the world over, an increasing number of women are directing documentaries, shorts and fiction feature films. Female directors from West Africa often foreground female themes in their films and place female characters at the centre of their filmic narratives, focusing on issues such as motherhood, generational knowledge and …
Festivals
Philadelphia Film Festival, CineFest 09, 26 March6 April 2009 A report by Gary M. Kramer VCU/University of Richmond French Film Festival Richmond, Virginia, 2729 March 2009 A report by Tim Palmer Africa in Motion (AiM) film festival, 23 October to 2 November 2008 A report by Lizelle Bisschoff International Film Festival Workshop, 4 April 2009, University of St Andrews A report by Serazer Pekerman
Sub-Saharan African Cinema in the Context of Fespaco
In the context of the biennial FESPACO film festival in Ouagadougou, this article gives overviews of the development of the film industries in francophone West Africa and anglophone South Africa, and of emerging trends and new directions. French support ensured that francophone countries were responsible for 80% of films made in Africa until the mid-1990s. Attempts to classify African film in terms of social realism, return to pre-colonial source…
African Theatre
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Africa's Lost Classics
Journal Article Africa's Lost Classics: introduction Get access Lizelle Bisschoff, Lizelle Bisschoff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Murphy David Murphy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 48, Issue 4, Winter 2007, Pages 493–499, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjm050 Published: 01 December 2007
Women in African Cinema
Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic showcases the very prolific but often marginalised presence of women in African cinema, both on the screen and behind the camera. This study provides the first in-depth and sustained study of women in African cinema. Films by women from different geographical regions are discussed in case studies that are framed by feminist theoretical and historical themes, and seen through an anti-colonial, philo…
Cinema in East Africa
The emergence of women’s film-making in francophone sub-Saharan Africa
The socially and politically committed films of francophone West Africa have for decades been incorporating progressive representations of African women. Although female directors are hugely underrepresented in West African film-making, as they are the world over, the last two decades have seen the gradual emergence of female directors in francophone West Africa. An increasing number of women in francophone West Africa are directing their own fil…
Sub-Saharan African Cinema in the Context of Fespaco
In the context of the biennial FESPACO film festival in Ouagadougou, this article gives overviews of the development of the film industries in francophone West Africa and anglophone South Africa, and of emerging trends and new directions. French support ensured that francophone countries were responsible for 80% of films made in Africa until the mid-1990s. Attempts to classify African film in terms of social realism, return to pre-colonial source…
Africa's Lost Classics
Journal Article Africa's Lost Classics: introduction Get access Lizelle Bisschoff, Lizelle Bisschoff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Murphy David Murphy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 48, Issue 4, Winter 2007, Pages 493–499, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjm050 Published: 01 December 2007
African Theatre
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Africa's Lost Classics
Journal Article Africa's Lost Classics: introduction Get access Lizelle Bisschoff, Lizelle Bisschoff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Murphy David Murphy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 48, Issue 4, Winter 2007, Pages 493–499, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjm050 Published: 01 December 2007
Festivals
Philadelphia Film Festival, CineFest 09, 26 March6 April 2009 A report by Gary M. Kramer VCU/University of Richmond French Film Festival Richmond, Virginia, 2729 March 2009 A report by Tim Palmer Africa in Motion (AiM) film festival, 23 October to 2 November 2008 A report by Lizelle Bisschoff International Film Festival Workshop, 4 April 2009, University of St Andrews A report by Serazer Pekerman
Sub-Saharan African Cinema in the Context of Fespaco
In the context of the biennial FESPACO film festival in Ouagadougou, this article gives overviews of the development of the film industries in francophone West Africa and anglophone South Africa, and of emerging trends and new directions. French support ensured that francophone countries were responsible for 80% of films made in Africa until the mid-1990s. Attempts to classify African film in terms of social realism, return to pre-colonial source…
Visions of female emancipation
Although female directors are hugely underrepresented in the West African film industries, as is the case in film industries the world over, an increasing number of women are directing documentaries, shorts and fiction feature films. Female directors from West Africa often foreground female themes in their films and place female characters at the centre of their filmic narratives, focusing on issues such as motherhood, generational knowledge and …
The emergence of women’s film-making in francophone sub-Saharan Africa
The socially and politically committed films of francophone West Africa have for decades been incorporating progressive representations of African women. Although female directors are hugely underrepresented in West African film-making, as they are the world over, the last two decades have seen the gradual emergence of female directors in francophone West Africa. An increasing number of women in francophone West Africa are directing their own fil…
Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival 2011
Africa in Motion (AiM) is an annual African film festival taking place in Edinburgh, primarily at Filmhouse Cinema, Edinburgh's premiere independent and arthouse cinema. The sixth edition of Africa
African sport in the global arena
Africa's Lost Classics
Until recently, the story of African film was marked by a series of truncated histories: many outstanding films from earlier decades were virtually inaccessible and thus often excluded from critical accounts. However, various conservation projects since the turn of the century have now begun to make many of these films available to critics and audiences in a way that was unimaginable just a decade ago. In this accessible and lively collection of …
Cinema in East Africa
From Nollywood to New Nollywood
From stories about cult and witchcraft to heartbreak and sorrow, Nigeria's Nollywood has developed into Africa's giant in filmmaking
Africa's Lost Classics
The future is digital
No abstract available
Women in African Cinema
Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic showcases the very prolific but often marginalised presence of women in African cinema, both on the screen and behind the camera. This study provides the first in-depth and sustained study of women in African cinema. Films by women from different geographical regions are discussed in case studies that are framed by feminist theoretical and historical themes, and seen through an anti-colonial, philo…
African Cyborgs
African feminist writers argue black female bodies should be understood as interactions between materiality and the symbolic constructions of the body embedded within a given culture. They caution that an overemphasis on corporeality and embodiment denies subjectivity to black women. Responding to such concerns, contemporary African cultural and creative practitioners offer alternatives to continuing objectification and bodily stereotyping. In th…
New Directions in African Film Studies
This review essay examines three recent contributions to African film studies: Lokangaka Losambe’s Postcolonial Agency in African and Diasporic Literature and Film, Lindsey B. Green-Simms’s Queer African Cinemas, and Matthew H. Brown’s Indirect Subjects: Nollywood’s Local Address. Each book proposes a distinctive framework for interpreting African screen media, addressing questions of agency, subjectivity and modernity. The essay explores how the…
Lindiwe Dovey, Out of the Box
No abstract available
African history and culture studies (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Art (11 works) · History (11 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (9 works) · History (9 works) · Art history (7 works) · Movie theater (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Media studies (6 works)