Vincent Bouchard

The papers on cultural diplomacy are quite substantial, very few concern the production and distribution of films. This book fills this gap with the research project that led to it: Exporting and supporting cinema in the context of Instituts français and Alliances françaises.

While cinemas have been closing across the African continent, film production has boomed and access to film has considerably increased for urban dwellers. How do people watch films today? Which films do they watch? Does this still count as cinema? The essays in this volume explore spectatorship in Africa.