Focusing on examples of Africas indigenous and diasporic cinema, this volume constellates the subject anew through thematic, transnational and trans-disciplinary perspectives. The author enlarges our understanding of the subject by surveying films that are African not simply through their content, their locations, or the nationality of their auteurs, but through the very processes by which they affect and engage their viewers. Exploring art house as well as commercial cinema productions, this student-friendly text identifies and probes the different techniques that create what can be called an African filmic experience. Through examples of key movies from across the continent and beyond Anglophone, Francophone or Lusophone realms the author theorizes interpretations of African cinema that move beyond the thematic commonalities of modernity and development.  The volume also charts the rise of a new generation of African film makers in light of the recent death of star auteur Sembene Ousmane, and includes commentaries on issues ranging from urbanization to womens issues and racial identity.