Pt. 1, Theorizing African cinema : postcolonial perspectives -- Theoretical construction of African cinema / Stephen Zacks -- African filmmaking and the postcolonial predicament : Quartier Mozart and Aristotle's plot / Jonathan Haynes -- Towards a theory of orality in African cinema / Keyan Tomaselli, Arnold Shepperson, and Maureen Eke -- Pt. 2, Studies in postcolonial films -- A problematic sign of African difference in Trinh T. Minh-ha's Reassemblage / Stephen A Zacks -- Look homeward, angel : maroons and mulattos in Haile Gerima's Sankofa / Sylvie KandeĢ -- The missing narrative in Wend Kuuni (Time and space) / Marie-Madgaleine Chirol -- Yeelen : a political fable of the Kome blacksmiths/sorcerers / Suzanne H. MacRae -- Pt. 3, The question of national cinemas -- Nigerian cinema : structural adjustments / Jonathan Haynes -- Portuguese African cinema : historical and contemporary perspectives , 1969-1993 / Claire Andrade-Watkins -- A window on whose reality? : the emerging industry of Senegalese cinema / Elizabeth Mermin -- Pt. 4, Feminist approaches to African cinema -- Women with open eyes, women of stone and hammers : Western feminism and African feminist filmmaking practice / Kenneth W. Harrow -- The mature and older women of African film / Suzanne MacRae -- The focus of tension : gender in Algerian cinema / Ratiba Hadj-Moussa -- Sub-Saharan African women filmmakers : agendas for research / Nancy J. Schmidt -- Women in African cinema : an annotated bibliography / Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol
