Critical Reflection on Cultural Identity on Africa
Write a response to the film and articles by using the reflection prompts:
What is Diawara’s saying about African photography versus African cinema?
What does Diawara say about Ousmane Sembene’s film style?
What does Diawara say about Anglophone African film vs Francophone African film?
At the end of the article, what does Diawara say that African filmmakers argue about the film?
What does Stewart Hall say about culture and identity?
What does Stewart Hall say about the two kinds of cultural identity?
Ask a critical question about either text.
Relate either text to the film.
The film is Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene/ Senegal)
There is no link for that because it was screened on class, you can google the description to write the critical reflection, don't need to waste time to watch it.
Your reflections should demonstrate your understanding of the weekly readings and the films you have watched in class. The point of this assignment is to engage in close reading of theoretical texts and apply them to the analysis of the films.
Do not simply describe film, or detail out the plot and characters. Instead - discuss the films in relation to the concepts and themes brought up in the readings and vice versa
This essay required at least 300 words. Please just write 25 more words for me, really appreciate.
Critical Reflection 6
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Critical Reflection 6
Africans have a different style of creating their cinemas and photography as displayed in the film Ousmane Sembene/ Senegal ("Black Girl," 2018). Also, information regarding the photography and cinema style can be extracted from the articles that have been provided in class. Hence, the work focuses on the cinema style and photography as used in the movie and the articles.
Diarawa describes that African photography and cinema are connected in that they portray the Whites supremacy that occurred in the colonial era. The early Europeans who made the movies and the photographs were concerned with displaying the nudity, polygamous African chiefs, religious customs, and tribal marks ((Diawara, 2007). The cinemas and the photographs were exotic and primitive in nature.
Moreover, the film styles are based on the African traditions. The movie ‘’Ousmane Sembene/ Senegal’’ is based on the history of the people of Bamakois community and how their women were treated in the past by the oppressors. Therefore, the film style is based on the traditional cultures of the African society.
The Anglophone films revolve around beautiful houses with luxurious cars, lush living rooms, television sets, refrigerators, and telephones. Also, their narrative always revolves around money, power of religious faith against greed, betrayal, and love. However, the major intention of Francophone movies is to reflect only Europeans (Diawara, 2007). Most of them are created in black and...