This module studies Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Ousmane Sembène, Sarah Maldoror and Med Hondo as filmmakers who opened ways of seeing, transmitting and contesting colonial or postcolonial power.
Learning goal
Study early major filmmakers through pioneering work, popular authorship, language, militancy, diaspora and anticolonial counter-gazes.
Completed lessons
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Course
Major African Filmmakers
Lesson list
Lesson 1
Understand Vieyra as a pioneer, filmmaker, historian and transmitter of African cinema memory.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Understand Vieyra as a pioneer, filmmaker, historian and transmitter of African cinema memory.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Lesson 2
Analyze Sembène through popular address, language, social critique and postcolonial politics.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Analyze Sembène through popular address, language, social critique and postcolonial politics.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Lesson 3
Compare Maldoror and Hondo through militant cinema, diaspora, anticolonialism and formal invention.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Compare Maldoror and Hondo through militant cinema, diaspora, anticolonialism and formal invention.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Open only when you are ready to apply this module. The complete prompts are preserved here.
Build a profile for one pioneer or militant filmmaker with context, works, method and legacy.
Expected output
A sourced filmmaker profile.
Quiz structure
1 question are prepared to validate the core concepts of this module.
Source to review before public screening or classroom projection.
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