Documentary Objectives – Filming Africa from Colonialism to Independence Gabara
Documentary ObjectivesFilming Africa from Colonialism to Independence\nAuthor(s): Rachel Gabara\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253074799, 978-0253074799\nSynopsis\nFor over a century, filmmakers have been shooting documentaries in West and Central Africa, a region that included the colonies of French West and Equatorial Africa and now encompasses fourteen nations and nearly 200 million people. Documentary Objectivesoffers a rich history of these films, until now largely ignored by scholars. Author Rachel Gabara shows the crucial role they played in the development of both European and African cinemas, arguing that their recovery as a nonfiction tradition transforms our understanding of documentary itself. \n\nGabara's book traces fifty years of French colonial documentary in sub-Saharan Africa propaganda-infused travel, hunting, expedition, and ethnographic films. After independence, African dire.
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