This book emphasizes the plurality of African cinema through a variety of themes and critical approaches that illuminate the scope of the mobilizing techniques for its proliferation as well as its deep concern for methods of production film aesthetics theory and criticism. Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse will offer scholars and students in film media and cultural studies as well as in history and Black and African studies a broader understanding of African cinema as a cultural art. The contributors show that it is informed not only by ideological determinants but also by the concern to boost perspectives for reading African film images that may or may not belong to the conventional interpretations proffered in EuroAmerican critical paradigms.