Fespaco and critical discourse on African cinema

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ID11750910
AuthorsBoukary Sawadogo (0000-0002-7748-1522, corresponding author), Addamms Mututa (0000-0001-7036-5361, City University of New York, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume14
Issue1
Pages35-47
Publication date2022-11-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of African Cinemas (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1754-9221 • E-ISSN: 1754-923X
PublisherIntellect (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1386/jac_00060_1
OpenAlexW4310377004
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited6

The Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) celebrated its golden jubilee at its 26th edition in 2019. This marks a time for reflection and assessment of the future of the festival. The 50th anniversary also represents a key juncture for scholars and practitioners to rethink curatorial practice in Africa to enable film festivals to function also as a medium of production and dissemination of critical discourse on African screen media. FESPACO has a longstanding tradition of continually producing archives of knowledge about African cinema. The study of the relationships between FESPACO and critical discourse on African cinema offers a template for other festivals to follow, thus opening a new discursive space in the emerging field of film festival studies

Art · Critical reflection · Field (mathematics · Linguistics · Media studies · Movie theater · Sociology · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Philosophy · South Asian Cinema and Culture

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