FILM QUARTERLY • FORTY YEARS - A SELECTION • BRIAN HENDERSON & ANN MARTIN (ED.)

FILM QUARTELY • FORTY YEARS - A SELECTION • Edited by Brian Henderson & Ann Martin • 1999 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS BERKELEY 571 pgs • Design: Nola Burger • During its forty years as a forum for scholars, filmmakers, critics, and film lovers, Film Quarterly has looked in depth at the most critical elements in the political, social, theoretical, and aesthetic history of the cinema. Once closely tied to Hollywood, the journal was investigated by the Tenney committee in 1946 and two of its board members came under fire from the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1951. After several metamorphoses, however, and with the dedicated participation of its editors, board members, and authors, the journal now stands as the oldest and most prominent journal in cinema studies, publishing film (and video and television) history, criticism, theory, analysis, interviews, and film and book reviews • Spanning the 1950s to the 1990s, Film Quarterly: Forty Years A Selection is a collaborative effort by the past and present editors and the editorial board to celebrate and illuminate the medium that has prompted so much thought and exchange during the journal's lifetime • PVP 37,10€ • Linha de Sombra • www.linhadesombra.com • Cinemateca Portuguesa ■

“To analyze African cinema, one must first understand that 25 years of film production have necessarily created an aesthetic tradition which African filmmakers use as a point of reference which they either follow or contest. An African aesthetic does not come merely from European cinema. To avoid making African cinema into an imperfect appendix to European cinema, one must question Africa itself, and African traditions, to discover the originality of its films.”

POPULAR CULTURE AND ORAL TRADITIONS IN AFRICA FILM, Manthia Diawara