Dedication Acknowledgements African Cinema and the Diasporic: Introductory Considerations, by Michael T. Martin and Gaston Jean-Marie Kaboré Part I: Colonial Formations Colonial Cinema, by Roy Armes The Colonialist Regime of Representation, 1945-1960, by James E. Genova Politics of Cultural Conversion in Colonialist African Cinema, by Femi Okiremuete Shaka The African Bioscope: Movie-House Culture in British Colonial Africa, by James Burns From the Inside: The Colonial Film Unit and the Beginning of the End, by Tom Rice The Independence Generation: Film Culture and the Anti-Colonial Struggle in the 1950s, by Odile Goerg Part II: Constituting African Cinema What Is Cinema for Us?, by Med Hondo A Cinema Fighting for Its Liberation, by Férid Boughedir Where Are the African Women Filmmakers?, by Haile Gerima The FEPACI and Its Artistic Legacies, by Sada Niang New Avenues for FEPACI: Interview with Seipati Bulane-Hopa, by Monique Mbeka Phoba The Six Decades of African Film, by Olivier Barlet Africa, The Last Cinema, by Clyde R. Taylor The Pan-African Cinema Movement: Achievements, Misadventures, and Failures (1969-2020), by Férid Boughedir Part III: Theorizing African Cinema African Cinema(s): Definitions, Identity, and Theoretical Considerations, by Alexie Tcheuyap Theorizing African Cinema: Contemporary African Cinematic Discourse and Its Discontents, by Esiaba Irobi The Theoretical Construction of African Cinema, by Stephen A. Zacks Toward a Critical Theory of Third World Films, by Teshome H. Gabriel Africans Filming Africa: Questioning Theories of an Authentic African Cinema, by David Murphy Tradition/Modernity and the Discourse of African Cinema, by Jude Akudinobi Toward a Theory of Orality in African Cinema, by Keyan G. Tomaselli, Arnold Shepperson, and Maureen N. Eke Film and the Problem of Languages in Africa, by Paulin Soumanou Vieyra In Defense of African Film Studies, by Boukary Sawadogo Part IV: Articulations of African Cinema Dossier 1: Key Dates in the History of African Cinema, by Olivier Barlet and Claude Forest Dossier 2: Ousmane Sembène, by Sada Niang and Samba Gadjigo Dossier 3: African Women in Cinema, by Beti Ellerson.