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""Documentary Objectives is a groundbreaking work, both archival and critical: a tour de force from one of the most meticulous, most accomplished writers on non-fiction film in Africa.""—Sada Niang, author of Nationalist African Cinema: Legacy and Transformations ""Documentary Objectives is an ingenious intervention into the terms of documentary cinema through French coloniality and the dynamic register of postcoloniality no longer tethered to Western conceptions of self and other. The description and interpretation of historical and contemporary documentary francophone African films are presented as a point of inflection and reinvention well beyond limited conceptions of the rest. Gabara's contribution deeply enriches our understanding of the futures of postcolonial documentary media.""—Peter J. Bloom, author of French Colonial Documentary: Mythologies of Humanitarianism

""Documentary Objectives is a groundbreaking work, both archival and critical: a tour de force from one of the most meticulous, most accomplished writers on non-fiction film in Africa.""—Sada Niang, author of Nationalist African Cinema: Legacy and Transformations

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Rachel Gabara is the Nancy Gillespie Brinning Professor in French at the University of Georgia. She is author of From Split to Screened Selves: French and Francophone Autobiography in the Third Person.

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