Rachel Gabara

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Rachel Gabara teaches literature and film at the University of Georgia, with a particular focus on nonfiction and historical fiction from Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. She has published articles on African film in Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema (Wayne State, 2007), Global Art Cinema: New Theories and Histories (Oxford, 2010), and The Global Auteur: Politics and Philosophy in 21st Century Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2016). Gabara’s recent research on documentary film in West and Central Africa has appeared in A Companion to African Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018) and the journals Black Camera, French Screen Studies, and Contemporary French Civilization.

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Coming of age in the 1960s in newly independent Senegal, documentarist Samba Félix Ndiaye participated in a ciné-club at the French Cultural Center in Dakar with a group of friends that included fellow future filmmakers Ben Diogaye Beye, Mahama Traoré, and Djibril Diop Mambety. Movie marathons were followed by passionate debates, Ndiaye recounted later, during which “the provocateurs who supported Intolerance were angry at the Battleship Potemkin fanatics, and the devotees of German...