African Women in Film, the Moving Image, and Screen Culture

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beti Ellerson
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
Early History ◽  
African Women ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
African Cinema ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Women In Cinema ◽  
Goals And Objectives

While African women in film have distinct histories and trajectories, at the same time they have common goals and objectives. Hence, “African women in film” is a concept, an idea, with a shared story and path. While there has always been the hope of creating national cinemas, even the very notion of African cinema(s) in the plural has been pan-African since its early history. And women have taken part in the formation of an African cinema infrastructure from the beginning. The emergence of an “African women in cinema movement” developed from this larger picture. The boundaries of women’s work extend to the global African diaspora. Language, geography, and colonial legacies add to the complexity of African cinema history. Women have drawn from the richness that this multiplicity offers, contributing on local, national, continental, and global levels as practitioners, activists, cultural producers, and stakeholders.

Teaching African Women in Cinema: Part Two

Black Camera ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellerson
Keyword(s):  
African Women ◽  
Women In Cinema

scholarly journals CHARACTERISTICS AND DEVELOPMENT OF PROGRAM BUDGETING IN SELF-GOVERNING REGION

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 050-055 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktor Šoltés ◽  
Katarína Štofková
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Statistical Processing ◽  
Program Budget ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Methodological Procedures ◽  
Program Budgeting ◽  
Goals And Objectives

The foundation enabling the management of each public administration entity is the budget. Public administration bodies in the Slovak Republic also include self‑governing regions among others. Budgets for these regions are categorized into two parts—revenue and expenditure. Expenditures are broken down into different areas (programs) that pursue common goals and objectives. Programs are usually divided into sub‑programs and components. Part of the program budgeting deployment incorporated issuance of methodological procedures; these described model cases on how to create the program budget. Yet, these procedures are not binding. As a part of the research in 2013, the final accounts of self‑governing regions of the Slovak Republic were analyzed. Division of individual programs and the amount of funding were determined. It is considered appropriate to create some form of general binding regulation defining programs content. This is to be done by considering the clarity and further statistical processing. Given the findings and bearing in mind five years’ worth of program budgeting operation in local government bodies, it is only appropriate to consider the implementation of changes in program budgeting and provide enhanced transparency.

Mood as medium: Reconstruction and the material speculations of “new heritage”

2022 ◽  
pp. 135918352110524
Author(s):  
Timothy P.A. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Common Goals

If the politics of aspirational construction appeal to the enchantment of infrastructure, reconstruction usually takes as given an environment of post-conflict, natural disaster, or the degradation of systems of preservation or resource management. If construction and conservation are taken as markers of continuity and political stability what does the urge to build again say about those who exert these ideas in advancement of a set of common goals? Shaped through multi-sited ethnography in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates, this essay explores the mediation of mood and its material speculations. Concepts borrowed from both the preservation of the moving image and digital forms of heritage restoration provide ways of rethinking the place of reconstruction and coming to a new understanding of its sensual and atmospheric terrain.

Pan-African Women of Faith:

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-154
Author(s):  
ANGELIQUE WALKER-SMITH
Keyword(s):  
African Women ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Women Of Faith

Pan-African Chronology: A Comprehensive Reference to the Black Quest for Freedom in Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia, 1400–1865. By EVERETT JENKINS, JR. North Carolina: McFarland, 1996. Pp. viii + 440. £44.95 (ISBN 0- 7864-0139-7).

1997 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-177
Author(s):  
HAKIM ADI
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Comprehensive Index ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Comprehensive Reference

Everett Jenkins' book is an admirable attempt to present a comparative chronology of events in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora. The volume is divided into five principal chapters, corresponding to the five centuries covered, each preceded by a brief introduction, and includes a short bibliography and guide to sources, as well as an extensive and comprehensive index. In addition to sections on Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, the author also includes useful sections on ‘related historical events’.

Teaching African Women in Cinema, Part One

Black Camera ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellerson
Keyword(s):  
African Women ◽  
Women In Cinema

African Diasporic Ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank “Trey” Proctor
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Old World ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Catchment Areas ◽  
Race Ethnicity

This chapter examines the intersections of race, ethnicity, and slavery in Spanish America and the African Diaspora by focusing on the development of African Diasporic ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650. Drawing on marriage records from early seventeenth-century Mexico City, it considers how Africans constructed multiple new ethnic and community identities in Spanish America. Through an analysis of selection patterns of testigos (wedding witnesses) alongside marriage choice, the chapter highlights the networks of social relations formed by slaves. It shows that ethnic Africans tended to marry and form communities of association with Africans from the same general catchment areas. It argues that the foundations of the ethnic communities under formation were not intact African ethnicities, pan-African identities, or race-based identities. Rather, slave marriages in Mexico City point to the creation of African diasporic ethnicities that were spontaneously articulated in the Diaspora. Africans formed new ethnic identities based upon Old World backgrounds and commonalities while in Diaspora.

scholarly journals African women of the screen at the digital turn

2015 ◽  
pp. 145-159
Author(s):  
Beti Ellerson
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
African Women ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Video Monitor ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Turn On ◽  
Screen Media ◽  
The Impact

When I conceptualised the Sisters of the Screen project as a book and film, I envisioned an “imagined community” of kindred spirits, a “sisterhood” where the screen was their ultimate point of convergence. The screen is where their images are read; whether it’s a movie screen, television set, video monitor, computer screen, tablet or mobile phone, for a director, producer, film festival organiser, actor, critic or spectator the screen is the ultimate site where the moving image is viewed, interpreted and understood. With the phenomenal development of screen culture as a result of the digital turn, I return to the “screen” as a conceptual framework that integrates screen media, and their associated devices and technologies; hence, the concept “African women of the screen” as the organising principle. This report examines the impact of the digital turn on African women of the screen, how their cinematic gaze has evolved, developed and transformed with the evolution of new technologies such as the Internet and, in particular, the emergence of social media.

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