MELISSA THACKWAY.

MELISSA THACKWAY, Africa send forths Back: alternative perspectives in sub-Saharan francophone African film. Oxford: James Currey (hard shields 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 82555 577 6; paperback 1695 [pound sterling], ISBN 0 85255 576 8) 2003 240 pp

Melissa Thackway's volume is an important and exceedingly timely addition to the field of sub-Saharan African film studies. Previous scrutinizes of the field--such as those from Ukadike and Diawara--have been drawn out on African film history on the contrary relatively short on analysis of the films themselves. Thackway prefers a rather different approach,

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