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Intellect is happy to announce that Journal of African Cinemas 11.2 is now available! 

Special Issue: 'Media Maghreb: Imagining North Africa in Audio-Visual Culture’ edited by Ivo Ritzer and Ute Fendler.

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Aims & Scope

The Journal of African Cinemas is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal that explores the interactions of visual and verbal narratives in African film. It recognizes the shifting paradigms that have defined and continue to define African cinemas. Identity and perception are interrogated in relation to their positions within diverse African film languages.

Issue 11.2

Editorial

Ivo Ritzer 

Articles

Maghreb forever: From ThirdWorldism to the epistemology of multiplicity in media culture

Ivo Ritzer

Cinema is a country: The transgressive power of images in The Sea is Behind by Hicham Lasri

Ute Fendler

Insurgent citizenship: Youth, political activism and citizen cinema in post-2011 Morocco

Jamal Bahmad

Tunisians in motion: Performing and narrating the (non-)political in Leyla Bouzid’s As I Open My Eyes 

Alena Strohmaier

The Underside of Power (Algiers): On W/Hole people, missing masses and dispositions of politics in popular cinema 

Drehli Robnik 

Reviews

Nollywood: The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres, Jonathan Haynes (2017) Babatunde Onikoyi

World Cinema and Cultural Memory, Inez Hedges (2015) Nwachukwu 

Frank Ukadike