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Journal of African Cinemas 16.1 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to present Journal of African Cinemas 16.1!

Special Issue: ‘Aesthetics of the Future: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Bekolo’

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-african-cinemas

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.

This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).

Issue 16.1

Editorial

Introduction: The future is now in past forward motion

P. JULIE PAPAIOANNOU

Research Articles

Science fiction and masquerade in Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Les Saignantes (2005): A cinematic way out of Africa’s declining future

MATTHIAS DE GROOF

Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Le président: Documenting the absence

RITA KERESZTESI

The colonial library and productive futurity in Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Mudimbe’s Things and Words (2015)

OLIVIER J. TCHOUAFFE