Session Details

Friday, 29 December

464. Problematizing Francophone National Cinemas

1:45–3:00 p.m., Commonwealth Hall A2, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Francophone Literatures and Cultures

Presiding: Aliko Songolo, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

1. “From Postcolonial to Global—the Empire Returns: Self-Referentiality and (Trans)National Identity in Francophone African Cinema,” Yifen T. Beus, Brigham Young Univ., HI

2. “New Lebanese Cinema: Transnationalism, Transculturalism, and the French Connection,” Anne Tereska Ciecko, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst

3. “Rethinking International Coproduction: Legacies of the Lumières and the Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique,” Dale Hudson, Amherst Coll.

4. “National Identity and Cinematic Adjustment in Mali,” Alioune Sow, Univ. of Florida

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