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Congolese cinema today : memories of the present in Kinshasa's New Wave Cinema (2008-2018)
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Author
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Abstract
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| Where to locate cultural memory in contemporary Congolese cinema ? This article makes an attempt at answering to this question by focusing on the way memory is thematised in the films produced by the "new wave" of Congolese filmmakers in Kinshasa. This new wave has emerged largely from the training program Atelier Action (2008-2015). In this article, the authors firstly introduce the history of cinema in Democratic Republic of Congo; secondly they situate and contextualize the work of Atelier Actions and discuss its trickledown effect on contemporary filmmaking in Kinshasa; and finally, they explore how this new wave mediates the past in the present by producing a cinema that - like contemporary Congolese literature - embraces the writing of immediacy, and produces an impression of perpetual present. Creative forgetfulness here, result from the combination of the impossibility of narrating the traumas of the past while facing the horrors of the present. The films of the Congolese new wave from Kinshasa thus represents memories of the present which perpetually glides into the past. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Francofonia: studi e ricerche sulle letterature di lingua francese. - Bologna
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Publication
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Bologna
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2019
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ISSN
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1121-953X
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Volume/pages
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76
(2019)
, p. 117-135
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ISI
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000472093100009
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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