Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals offers the first scholarly exploration of the vital ... more Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals offers the first scholarly exploration of the vital yet controversial role played by film festivals in curating particular versions of Africa, African film, African filmmakers, and African audiences. Drawing on fifteen years of Dovey’s work and field research, it takes us on a festive, historical tour, analyzing the curation of Africans at the world fairs, the contemporary curation of African film and African filmmakers at film festivals, and the proliferation of international film festivals across Africa today. Emphasizing the live potential of festivals, the book reveals the complex ways that festivals are co-authored by their organizers and participants, and makes a case for the subjective and contextual nature of aesthetic judgment.
African Film and Literature explores the creativity of film adaptation practices in contemporary ... more African Film and Literature explores the creativity of film adaptation practices in contemporary South and West Africa, as well as the representation of violence on film. Analyzing a range of films inspired by African and non-African literature, Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking – one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique of physical and psychological violence, not only within Africa but globally. Against a detailed history of the medium’s savage introduction and exploitation by colonial powers in two very different African contexts, Dovey examines the complex ways in which filmmakers from South and West Africa engage with issues of the past and present, reframing the history and the literature they adapt to address audiences in Africa and elsewhere. Through this deliberate and radical re-historicization of texts and realities, Dovey argues that African filmmakers have developed a method of filmmaking that is distinct from European and North American forms of film adaptation, and that these same filmmakers offer powerful ethical critiques of specific forms of violence.
In this article, Dovey draws on her experience not only as a researcher and teacher of African fi... more In this article, Dovey draws on her experience not only as a researcher and teacher of African film, but also as an African film programmer and film festival director. The article thus shifts between descriptive and prescriptive registers; at turns analytical, it also takes on the tone of a feminist manifesto at times, suggesting what is potentially lost through a lack of attention to African and African diaspora women’s filmmaking, in both the scholarly and programming realms. The article can thus be considered as, on the one hand, a gender-based analysis of three recent, celebrated films by and about Africans, and, on the other hand, as a justification of why she decided to make ‘African Women Filmmakers’ a focus of her curating of the festival Film Africa 2011.
This article, co-authored with Joshua McNamara and Federico Olivieri, represents the culmination ... more This article, co-authored with Joshua McNamara and Federico Olivieri, represents the culmination of a long-term partnership and collaboration between three film festival researchers and practitioners. The article not only offers an exploration of the Slum Film Festival in Nairobi and of development practices in this context, but also, crucially, explores different methodological approaches to the study of film festivals. In this way, it offers an understanding of objects of study as relationally constituted and contextually bound.
Part of a dossier that explores film festival pedagogy, this short article discusses the philosop... more Part of a dossier that explores film festival pedagogy, this short article discusses the philosophy that guided Dovey’s creation of her postgraduate course “Curating Africa: African Film and Video in the Age of Festivals.” Dovey ultimately argues that teaching through the lens of film festivals can be a catalyst for a certain kind of teaching, scholarship and human interaction more broadly; that students need to be made aware of how university classes are themselves curations that should always be open to critique, since they are invariably statements about what does and does not matter.
... ISBN: 9781107007031. ID Code: 13325. Deposited By: Lindiwe Dovey. Deposited On: 14 Mar 2012 0... more ... ISBN: 9781107007031. ID Code: 13325. Deposited By: Lindiwe Dovey. Deposited On: 14 Mar 2012 09:45. Statistics. Item downloaded times since 14 Mar 2012 09:45. View statistics for "Film and Postcolonial Writing". Repository Staff Only: item control page. ...
... Contemporary (ethno)musicologists working on 'screened music&amp... more ... Contemporary (ethno)musicologists working on 'screened music' argue that 'as soundtrack and visuals are ... but also (in less legitimate ways) of such conservative musicology as would ... By the 1950s in particular, this extraordinarily prolific (ethno)musicologist, anthropologist and ...
Dovey, Lindiwe (2010)'Directors' Cut: In Defence of African Film Festiv... more Dovey, Lindiwe (2010)'Directors' Cut: In Defence of African Film Festivals outside Africa.'In: Iordanova, Dina and Cheung, Ruby,(eds.), Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities. St Andrews Film Studies, pp. 45-73.
In this overview article, I attempt to characterize a South African cinema of exile through a num... more In this overview article, I attempt to characterize a South African cinema of exile through a number of lenses. I begin by situating my study within general studies of cinema and exile before focusing on Hamid Naficy's distinction between exilic and diasporic films and the ...
Books in motion: adaptation, intertextuality, authorship, Jan 1, 2005
... Certain theorists, such as Patrick Cattrysse, have begun to confront the way in which history... more ... Certain theorists, such as Patrick Cattrysse, have begun to confront the way in which history has been largely ignored in film adaptation theory, and to suggest that we replace traditional film adaptation studies with 'source studies'. ...
Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals offers the first scholarly exploration of the vital ... more Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals offers the first scholarly exploration of the vital yet controversial role played by film festivals in curating particular versions of Africa, African film, African filmmakers, and African audiences. Drawing on fifteen years of Dovey’s work and field research, it takes us on a festive, historical tour, analyzing the curation of Africans at the world fairs, the contemporary curation of African film and African filmmakers at film festivals, and the proliferation of international film festivals across Africa today. Emphasizing the live potential of festivals, the book reveals the complex ways that festivals are co-authored by their organizers and participants, and makes a case for the subjective and contextual nature of aesthetic judgment.
African Film and Literature explores the creativity of film adaptation practices in contemporary ... more African Film and Literature explores the creativity of film adaptation practices in contemporary South and West Africa, as well as the representation of violence on film. Analyzing a range of films inspired by African and non-African literature, Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking – one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique of physical and psychological violence, not only within Africa but globally. Against a detailed history of the medium’s savage introduction and exploitation by colonial powers in two very different African contexts, Dovey examines the complex ways in which filmmakers from South and West Africa engage with issues of the past and present, reframing the history and the literature they adapt to address audiences in Africa and elsewhere. Through this deliberate and radical re-historicization of texts and realities, Dovey argues that African filmmakers have developed a method of filmmaking that is distinct from European and North American forms of film adaptation, and that these same filmmakers offer powerful ethical critiques of specific forms of violence.
In this article, Dovey draws on her experience not only as a researcher and teacher of African fi... more In this article, Dovey draws on her experience not only as a researcher and teacher of African film, but also as an African film programmer and film festival director. The article thus shifts between descriptive and prescriptive registers; at turns analytical, it also takes on the tone of a feminist manifesto at times, suggesting what is potentially lost through a lack of attention to African and African diaspora women’s filmmaking, in both the scholarly and programming realms. The article can thus be considered as, on the one hand, a gender-based analysis of three recent, celebrated films by and about Africans, and, on the other hand, as a justification of why she decided to make ‘African Women Filmmakers’ a focus of her curating of the festival Film Africa 2011.
This article, co-authored with Joshua McNamara and Federico Olivieri, represents the culmination ... more This article, co-authored with Joshua McNamara and Federico Olivieri, represents the culmination of a long-term partnership and collaboration between three film festival researchers and practitioners. The article not only offers an exploration of the Slum Film Festival in Nairobi and of development practices in this context, but also, crucially, explores different methodological approaches to the study of film festivals. In this way, it offers an understanding of objects of study as relationally constituted and contextually bound.
Part of a dossier that explores film festival pedagogy, this short article discusses the philosop... more Part of a dossier that explores film festival pedagogy, this short article discusses the philosophy that guided Dovey’s creation of her postgraduate course “Curating Africa: African Film and Video in the Age of Festivals.” Dovey ultimately argues that teaching through the lens of film festivals can be a catalyst for a certain kind of teaching, scholarship and human interaction more broadly; that students need to be made aware of how university classes are themselves curations that should always be open to critique, since they are invariably statements about what does and does not matter.
... ISBN: 9781107007031. ID Code: 13325. Deposited By: Lindiwe Dovey. Deposited On: 14 Mar 2012 0... more ... ISBN: 9781107007031. ID Code: 13325. Deposited By: Lindiwe Dovey. Deposited On: 14 Mar 2012 09:45. Statistics. Item downloaded times since 14 Mar 2012 09:45. View statistics for "Film and Postcolonial Writing". Repository Staff Only: item control page. ...
... Contemporary (ethno)musicologists working on 'screened music&amp... more ... Contemporary (ethno)musicologists working on 'screened music' argue that 'as soundtrack and visuals are ... but also (in less legitimate ways) of such conservative musicology as would ... By the 1950s in particular, this extraordinarily prolific (ethno)musicologist, anthropologist and ...
Dovey, Lindiwe (2010)'Directors' Cut: In Defence of African Film Festiv... more Dovey, Lindiwe (2010)'Directors' Cut: In Defence of African Film Festivals outside Africa.'In: Iordanova, Dina and Cheung, Ruby,(eds.), Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities. St Andrews Film Studies, pp. 45-73.
In this overview article, I attempt to characterize a South African cinema of exile through a num... more In this overview article, I attempt to characterize a South African cinema of exile through a number of lenses. I begin by situating my study within general studies of cinema and exile before focusing on Hamid Naficy's distinction between exilic and diasporic films and the ...
Books in motion: adaptation, intertextuality, authorship, Jan 1, 2005
... Certain theorists, such as Patrick Cattrysse, have begun to confront the way in which history... more ... Certain theorists, such as Patrick Cattrysse, have begun to confront the way in which history has been largely ignored in film adaptation theory, and to suggest that we replace traditional film adaptation studies with 'source studies'. ...
International Journal of Francophone Studies, Jan 1, 2009
Abstract: Based on research conducted at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs&#... more Abstract: Based on research conducted at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs' African Cinmathque, this article explores the narrative and aesthetic manifestations of alienation in francophone West African films of the past five decades. Rather than examine immigration ...
... ID Code: 8115. Deposited By: Lindiwe Dovey. Deposited On: 21 Jan 2010 11:46. Statistics. Item... more ... ID Code: 8115. Deposited By: Lindiwe Dovey. Deposited On: 21 Jan 2010 11:46. Statistics. Item downloaded times since 21 Jan 2010 11:46. View statistics for "Review of 'The Devil you Dance With: Film Culture in the New South Africa'". Repository Staff Only: item control page. ...
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