Publisher: NISC (Pty) Ltd, South Africa
Pages: 244
Year: 2019
Category: Art History, Art, Photography, Film & Music, Film
Dimensions: 244 x 170 mm
Gender Terrains in African Cinema reflects on a body of
canonical African filmmakers who address a trajectory of pertinent
social issues. Dipio analyses gender relations around three categories
of female characters – the girl child, the young woman and the elderly
woman and their male counterparts. Although gender remains the focal
point in this lucid and fascinating text, Dipio engages attention in her
discussion of African feminism in relation to Western feminism. With
its broad appeal to African humanities, Gender Terrains in African Cinema
stands as a unique and radical contribution to the field of (African)
film studies, which until now, has suffered from a paucity of
scholarship.
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About the author
Dominica Dipio is an associate professor of literature and film based in
Makerere University, Kampala, where she obtained her Bachelor’s and
Master’s degrees in Literature. Her Licentiate in Social Communications
and PhD in Film Studies, specialising in African Cinema are from the
Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Dipio has won a number of
research grants, including a Fulbright Research Fellowship (2012-2013);
the Africa Humanities Program Fellowship that recognises excellent
research in Humanities (2009); and the Makerere-Bergen Foklore Project
(2007-2012) where she has been a lead researcher and coordinator. Among
the recognitions she has received is a nomination among high achieving
women in Uganda whose stories are profiled in a book, Footmarks Scaling
Heights: Conversations with Women of Purpose in Uganda (2014). She is
also a recipient of the Authorship and Legal Deposit Award of Makerere
University (2009), and the Art Press Association (Award for her first
feature film, ‘A Meal to Forget’ (2009). Dipio has several publications
in her research fields of film, literature, folklore and cultural
studies, with gender as a cross-cutting interest in her writings.
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