ISBN:
978-1-4438-5497-9
,
1-4438-5497-2
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 284 S.
,
Ill.
Keywords:
Afrika Ghana
;
Nigeria
;
Republik Südafrika
;
Kenia
;
Uganda
;
Marokko
;
Film
Abstract:
African Film: Looking Back and Looking Forward acknowledges all those filmmakers and film scholars who, through their productions and theorization, have made a difference to the filmic universe in Africa. Their substantial contribution reflects our world and has the potential to change our lives. The book adopts an interdisciplinary character, traversing, as it does, the diverse subjects of politics, economics and history, among others. It interrogates Africa's filmic past, analyses current productions, projects into the future of the film in Africa, and deals with the nature of the filmmaking profession. This book contributes to the growing literature on the African film and will provide the opportunity for filmmakers, academics and students to learn about the history, theories, problems, and various approaches to production, marketing, gender issues, race and legal issues, and a host of other subjects that impinge upon the African film.
Description / Table of Contents:
Part 1 Biological factors: the Desert Locust - an international challenge, R.Skaf et al; a migrant pest in the Sahel - the Senegalese grasshopper, R.A.Cheke; progress and developments in forecasting outbreaks of the African armyworm - a migrant moth, P.O.Odiyo. Part 2 Physical elements: Algerian case study and the need for permanent Desert Locust monitoring, R.Kellou et al; an airborne radar system for Desert Locust control, R.C.Rainey and R.J.V.Joyce; detection of mesoscale synoptic features associated with dispersal of spruce budworm moths in eastern Canada, R.B.B.Dickison; recent airborne radar observations of migrant pests in the United States, W.W.Wolf et al; concentration of flying insects by the wind, D.E.Pedgley; nocturnal grasshopper migration in West Africa - transport and concentration by the wind, and the implications for air-to-air control, J.R.Riley and D.R.Reynolds; training - the missing link in pest control, Kit R.A.Kitenda; a meteostate motion picture of a weather situation relevant to locust reports, C.Zick; monitoring of rainfall in relation to the control of migrant pests, J.R.Milford and G.Dugdale; satellite environmental monitoring for migrant pest forecasting by FAO - the ARTEMIS system, J.U.Hielkema. Part 3 Progress in the international control of another major migrant pest - the blackfly vector of river-blindness: the WHO Onchocerciasis Control Programme - retrospect and prospects, R.Le Berre et al; progress in controlling the reinvasion of windborne vectors into the western area of the Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa, R.H.A.Baker et al.
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