Making New People

James Genova

On August 4, 1983, Captain Thomas Sankara led a coalition of radical military officers, communist activists, labor leaders, and militant students to overtake the government of the Republic of Upper Volta. Almost immediately following the coup’s success, the small West African country—renamed Burkina Faso, or Land of the Dignified People—gained international attention as it charted a new path toward social, economic, cultural, and political development based on its people’s needs rather than external pressures and Cold War politics. James E. Genova’s Making New People: Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso, 1983–1987 recounts in detail the revolutionary government’s rise and fall, demonstrating how it embodied the critical transition period in modern African history between the era of decolonization and the dawning of neoliberal capitalism, and revealing the key role of film in the revolution’s efforts to raise people’s consciousness.

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  • ISBN: 9781611864397
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African American Entertainers in Australia and New Zealand

Bill Egan

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  • ISBN: 9781476677958
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New Latin American Cinema vol. 2

Michael T. Martin

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  • ISBN: 9780814325865
  • Publication Date: Jun 1997
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New Latin American Cinema vol. 1

Michael T. Martin

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  • ISBN: 9780814325858
  • Publication Date: Mar 1997
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New Latin American Cinema Vol one; Theory, Practices, and Transcontinental Articulations

Michael T. Martin

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  • ISBN: 9780814327050
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New Latin American Cinema Vol two; Studies of National Cinemas

Michael T. Martin

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  • ISBN: 9780814327067
  • Publication Date: Feb 1997
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