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id	eprints-25829
recordtype	eprints
institution	SOAS, University of London
collection	SOAS Research Online
language	English
language_search	English
description	This article explores the relationships between African filmmakers and communism during the Cold War period, with a particular focus on those African filmmakers who were trained in the Soviet Union, such as Sarah Maldoror, Ousmane Sembene, and Abderrahmane Sissako. The essay argues that, while affinities can be found between the work of African and Soviet filmmakers, these relationships were often compromised by utopian assumptions of “brotherhood” or racism—an issue frequently critiqued by African filmmakers in their films through creating tension between images and soundtrack. The analysis thus foregrounds the aural language of film, the sonic contexts in which films are made and viewed, and the language(s) in which research is conducted, to emphasize how the aural is an important aspect of the visual even in its absence, and to sound a note of caution against overly celebratory accounts of transnational film relationships.
author_additional	Lu, Xiaoning
author_additionalStr	Lu, Xiaoning
format	Book Chapters
author	Dovey, Lindiwe
author_facet	Dovey, Lindiwe
authorStr	Dovey, Lindiwe
author_letter	Dovey, Lindiwe
title	Listening Between the Images: African Filmmakers’ Take on the Soviet Union, Soviet Filmmakers’ Take on Africa
publisher	Oxford University Press
publishDate	2020
url	https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/25829/