African Unification Front
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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The beginnings of the cinema coincided with the height of European imperialism, it is hardly surprising that European cinema portrayed the colonised in an unflattering light. The racial stereotyping went hand in hand with an industrial dependence which was even more difficult to eliminate.
In terms of current methods and approaches in African film theory, the extent to which African film satisfies an inter-cultural communication perspective, African film functions as part of the social fabric, inseparable from questions of economics, ethics, politics and personal relationships.
Moreover, because of the dependency of the film industry on state and non-African NGO subsidy and support, as well as the reliance on the moral and political support of western film culture and training, film makers in the African Union are constrained in numerous ways and their works reflect the burden of the restrictions on their creativity and craft.
Much of African film is derivative, although there a significant selection are innovative and exploratory. There are very few historical films (the most famous of which is Shaka Zulu - created by the Apartheid regime). American cultural domination, government intervention and/or interference, distribution monopolies, racial stereotyping) are common problems in audio-visual media.
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