Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
Taking Ousmane Sembène’s internship with the Soviet filmmaker Mark Donskoy as its point of departure, this article traces the entanglement of Sembène’s early films with Soviet cinema. To this end, I will be focusing on the general context of montage and cinema of the Thaw, while giving special consideration to a short Soviet documentary film celebrating Senegalese independence. In particular, paradigms of Thaw cinema can be discerned in Sembène’s Borom Sarret, where they are coupled with the claim to cinematic dialectic, resulting in an active translation into African contexts. In conclusion I would like to offer an intertextual reading of the remarkable parallels.
Recommended Citation
Drews-Sylla, Gesine
(2023)
"Ousmane Sembène et le cinéma soviétique,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 100:
No.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol100/iss1/6
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