African cinemas and the meanders of visibility

• Autor(a) principal: Serafim, José Francisco
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Esteves, Ana Camila, de Lima, Morgana Gama
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista FAMECOS: Mídia cultura e tecnologia
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/revistafamecos/article/view/31675
• topic: African cinemas. Mediation. Academy.; Cines africanos. La mediación. Academía.; Cinemas africanos. Mediação. Academia.; Cinemas africanos

This article discusses issues related to the construction of analytical discourses on African films and how the criteria used in the process of diffusion and acclaim of  this cinematography have a close relation with two mediating instances: the festivals and the academy. We argue that the adoption of different critical approaches starts from a process of feedback between these two instances that, by working as spaces of communication, guide the content of the critical-analytical texts that circulate in these spaces and, therefore, restrict the perception of this cinematography to specific paradigms. Considering the importance of the festivals and the academy for the legitimacy of African cinemas, and their roles as mediators, we make a brief analysis of catalogs produced in three festival programs about African films in Brazil between 2015 and 2017, in order to understand the discursive logics that guide the production of critical texts on African cinematography, and its consequences on the visibility of these films.