AN OVERVIEW OF AFRICAN FILM AND LITERATURE WITH REFERENCE TO NADINE GORDIMER WORKS

Author Name: Tabasssum Praveen

Volume: 01 &  Issue:

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434, DOI Link: http://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/09.2020-13255575/

Affiliation:

1. PhD Scholar, Department of English, Patna University, Patna, Bihar,India

ABSTRACT

Film and literature are the artistic expressions of human mind. Man thinks of different ways of communicating human experiences to broaden the enlightenment scenario. At the very outset, nobody takes an interest and favor towards the connection of filming and writing (literature). The relation (connection) of both, film and literature is as old as humanity. The 19th Century is the slow beginning to take an ideal shape of the process of creative exchange between film and literature. Film is such a field which was more related to photography and painting in the beginning. On the contrary,literature was almost restricting to print, which has more or less a permanent shape. Literature consists of different genres - short story, novel, drama and poetry. These all are the written documents, and it is clear that letters are used in literature. African cinema is film production in Africa. It dates back to the early 20th century, when film reels were the primary cinematic technology in use. During the colonial era, African life was shown only by the work of white, colonial, Western filmmakers, who depicted blacks in a negative fashion, as exotic "others". There is no one single African cinema; there are differences between North African and Sub-Saharan cinema, and between the cinemas of different countries. African filmmakers currently produce more films than their North American or European counterparts, yet the common misconception endures that the diversity of African cinema can be reduced to a simple, monolithic category of "African film." Sometimes "African film" is considered only in terms of anthropological films, imagined to represent some mythical "authenticity." At other times "African film" is considered as a set of artistic practices specific to the continent (sometimes derived from the model of Ousmane Sembène's early work).

Key words: Literature, overview ,works