3-volume collection on African cinema shortlisted for the 2024 Kraszna-Krausz Award
African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization: Volumes 1, 2 & 3 were shortlisted for the 39th edition of the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards in the moving images category. The three-volume set edited by Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor (Class of 1948) Michael T. Martin and Gaston J. M. Kaboré with graduate students Allison J. Brown, Cole Nelson, and Joseph E. Roskos was published by Indiana University Press.
The annual competition is the United Kingdom’s most prestigious book award for the moving image. The awards recognize those who have made an outstanding original or lasting contribution to the literature of or concerning the art and practice of photography or the moving image. Out of hundreds of titles submitted this year, six publications were selected for the shortlists – three in the photography category and three in the moving image category. A winning title is then selected for each category.
“It is impossible to overstate the value of this ambitious project to the study and understanding of African cinema,” said Sandra Hebron, one of the judges for the awards.
“The vastness of the subject is rewarded with, and reflected in, this expansive three-volume collection of essays and case studies. Weaving together the contributions of filmmakers and workers alongside film scholars allows for a multiplicity of experiences and voices to coalesce to purposeful decolonizing intent. The sheer range of material included is remarkable and often moving.”
