Rachel Gabara teaches literature and film at the University of Georgia, with a particular focus on nonfiction and historical fiction from Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. She has published articles on African film in Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema (Wayne State, 2007), Global Art Cinema: New Theories and Histories (Oxford, 2010), and The Global Auteur: Politics and Philosophy in 21st Century Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2016). Gabara’s recent research on documentary film in West and Central Africa has appeared in A Companion to African Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018) and the journals Black Camera, French Screen Studies, and Contemporary French Civilization.
Rachel Gabara
Contributions
Cinephobia/Cinephilia: Modernism and Sub-Saharan African Film
Coming of age in the 1960s in newly independent Senegal, documentarist Samba Félix Ndiaye participated in a ciné-club at the French Cultural Center in Dakar with a group of friends that included fellow future filmmakers Ben Diogaye Beye, Mahama Traoré, and Djibril Diop Mambety.