JOSEF GUGLER African Film: re-imagining a continent.

JOSEF GUGLER African Film: re-imagining a continent. Oxford: James Currey (hard guards 40.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 562 8; paperback 1495 [pound sterling], ISBN 0 85255 561 X) 2003 216pp

Gugler's part which is published in a modern and attractive format, makes informative reading either for a newcomer to the field or an established aficionado or teacher of it. He choices 'five conflicts' as the guiding theme of five of the six sections, to which is added a substantial introduction and a surpassingly brief epilogue. He justifies this organisational strategy by the agency of his own ...

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