African Cinema in (R)evolution

Freedom for Ghana (1957), a thirty-five-minute film of Ghana’s independence celebrations, documents the triumphant outcome of Ghana’s revolution. The film was made by the Ghana Film Unit which, unlike its colonial predecessor the Gold Coast Film Unit, served a newly liberated Ghanaian government. A...

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Главные авторы: Hodgkinson, Dan, Blaylock, Jennifer, Afonu, Anita
Формат: Article ou chapitre numérique
Язык:Anglais
Опубликовано: Sources 2025
Online-ссылка:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Итог:Freedom for Ghana (1957), a thirty-five-minute film of Ghana’s independence celebrations, documents the triumphant outcome of Ghana’s revolution. The film was made by the Ghana Film Unit which, unlike its colonial predecessor the Gold Coast Film Unit, served a newly liberated Ghanaian government. And yet, Freedom for Ghana is exemplary of the ambiguities in revolutionary African cinemas and their unresolved afterlives that the essays in this special issue explore. For while Freedom for Ghana...