gender sexuality and African cinema

DIRECTIONS: *Attempt only two questions.*Question # 1 Section A is compulsory.*Choose one more question from Section B.*Keep your answers clear concise and analytical.*Address your responses to the specific demands of each question.*Limit your answers to 4 (double-spaced 12-pitch font) pages per question.*Illustrate your answers with pertinent references and cite key sources consulted. *No haphazard submission of papers or excuses for late papers would be accepted. SECTION A 1) Discuss with special attention to thematic narrative and aesthetic features how gender and sexuality generate potent frameworks for social and creative interventions in African Cinema. SECTION B 2) Examine incisively the exquisite explorations of social milieus identities class sexuality eroticism and novel modes of resistance in Rafiki and Visage des Femmes (Faces of Women). 3) With attention to each film’s unique setting and narrative threads discuss the subversion of patriarchy and its tangled relationship to discourses of nation in Xala and Virgin Margarida. 4) Noting the film’s vibrant framework analyze with nuances the relationship between cultural formations the femme fatale archetype society and discourses of masculinities in Viva Riva! Requirements: 6-8