Toward an African Cinema
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11747179 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Frank Ukadike (corresponding author), Eddie Ugbomah |
| Year | 1994 |
| Issue | 63 |
| Pages | 150-150 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1527-8042 • E-ISSN: 0041-1191 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2935339 |
| OpenAlex | W2327099561 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Where many of his contemporaries have failed, Ugbomah and his production company, Edifosa Films, have produced more than thirteen films without turning to outside funding agencies. He envisions a thriving African film industry that requires no assistance from external sources. This insistence, as well as his demotic flair and socially committed art, makes him a uniquely compelling antiestablishment figure in African film. It has also put him on a collision course with Nigeria's political hierarchy, his fellow filmmakers, and African filmmakers in general. Ugbomah is Nigeria's most outspoken and most controversial filmmaker
Art · Art history · Movie theater · African history and culture studies
Politics and Aesthetics in Francophone African film
Subjects of exile
Esquisse d'une typologie des cinmas en Afrique noire
Bizet in Khayelitsha
Urban Apprenticeships and Senegalese Narratives of Development
Popular Ghanaian Cinema and ?African Heritage
Madness, Money, and Movies
When Hearts Beat Like Native Drums
| Citations per year | 0.3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2010 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |