Reel resistance the cinema of Jean-Marie Teno - Thackway, Melissa 1969-; Téno, Jean-Marie 1954- (James Currey, 2023)
Part I. 1. Documentary filmmaking in Africa: an introduction -- Defining documentary -- Documentary in Africa -- Early African cinema and the documentary -- Early African documentary practices -- Into the Eighties ... -- 2. Critical insights: reading the films of Jean-Marie Teno -- A film style: traits and evolutions -- Committed cinema: a poetics of resistance -- The Cinematic 'I': subjectivity, voice -- (Hi)stories, memory: decolonial readings of the past -- Reconstructing archaeologies of memory -- Decolonizing the Archive -- Spanning borders in one stride: transnationality, circulations and exile -- Conslucsion: for a decolonial aesthetics ? -- Part II. In Conversation -- In the Beginning ... -- First Encounters, first steps -- First films -- Filming the real -- Documentary practice -- Experimentations, Assemblages -- The Cinematic I -- Journey -- (Hi)stories, memory -- Decolonizing the 'Colonial Library' -- Endogenizing Film language -- Transmission -- Circulations -- Part III. Appendices -- Appendix 1 The writings of Jean-Marie Teno -- Freedom: the power to say no -- Writing on walls: the future of African documentary cinema -- Filming alone (extracts) -- Appendix 2 The films of Jean-Marie Teno -- (List of works, their technical details & synopses)
First published 2020