Fiction and Documentary African Films: Narrative and Stylistic Affinities. Issue 3 (2nd September 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Niang, Sada
• Is Part Of: Critical interventions. Volume 11:Issue 3(2017)
• Page Start: 228
• Page End: 235
• Publication Date: 2017-09-02
• Subjects: Art, African -- Periodicals; Art, African -- 20th century -- History -- Periodicals; Art, African -- 21st century -- History -- Periodicals; 709.6
• DOI: 10.1080/19301944.2017.1401377
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1930-1944

Abstract

Abstract: Nationalist African cinema significantly detached itself from the ideological underpinnings of reductive colonial images. It was, in the eyes of the members of the Fepaci (Federation panafricaine des cineastes), a matter of political and cultural survival. This article argues that the films of this and subsequent generations were able to do so only by fusing generic features of the documentary genre in the crafting of fictional narratives.