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Making new people : politics, cinema, and liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983-1987
- Title
- Making new people : politics, cinema, and liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983-1987 / James E. Genova.
- Author
- Genova, James Eskridge
- Publication
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2023]
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Details
- Description
- xxviii, 262 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This book looks at Burkina Faso's revolution (1983-1987), led by Thomas Sankara, as a window into a critical transition period in modern African history between the closing of the era of the fight for national liberation and the dawning of new forces around neoliberal capitalist globalization. It focuses on the regime's cultural politics and specifically the importance the revolutionaries attached to the cinema as a mechanism for social change"--
- Alternative Title
- Politics, cinema, and liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983-1987
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Politics and culture in Upper Volta (1960s-1982) -- Dual power and the triumph of the Burkinabé Revolution (1982-1983) -- Building revolutionary structures and making new people (1983-1984) -- Cultural revolution, economic reform, and global engagement (1984-1985) -- Recalibration of the Burkinabé Revolution (1985-1986) -- Under siege : twilight of the revolution and Sankara's murder (1986-1987) -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- ReCAP 23-3188
- ISBN
- 9781611864397
- 1611864399
- LCCN
- 2022001639
- OCLC
- 1309059208
- Author
- Genova, James Eskridge, author.
- Title
- Making new people : politics, cinema, and liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983-1987 / James E. Genova.
- Publisher
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- ReCAP 23-3188