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Contemporary African Screen Worlds (2025)
Book
Dovey, L., Agina, A., & Thomas, M. (Eds.). (2025). Contemporary African Screen Worlds. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478060413

Contemporary African Screen Worlds brings together a new generation of African screen media scholars who explore and theorize the dynamic, interactive screen worlds that have arisen in contemporary Africa due to dramatic global changes in technology.... Read More about Contemporary African Screen Worlds.

From One Woman to Another: The Screen Worlds of Bongiwe Selane (2023)
Digital Artefact
Dovey, L. (2023). From One Woman to Another: The Screen Worlds of Bongiwe Selane. [Film]

The film focuses on the “Female Only Filmmakers” project, funded by the National Film and Video Foundation, and which Selane led from 2013 to 2016, and delves in particular into the relationship between Selane and actress and producer Dineo Lusenga.... Read More about From One Woman to Another: The Screen Worlds of Bongiwe Selane.

Intermediality in Academia: Creative Research through Film (2023)
Journal Article
Dovey, L. (2023). Intermediality in Academia: Creative Research through Film. Arts, 12(4), 169. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12040169

This article provides an overview of the recent flourishing of research and pedagogy in higher education that seeks a greater rapprochement between criticism and creativity, bringing together diverse media, disciplines, and modes of knowledge product... Read More about Intermediality in Academia: Creative Research through Film.

Toward Decolonized Film Festival Worlds (2023)
Book Chapter
Dovey, L., & Sendra Fernandez, E. (2023). Toward Decolonized Film Festival Worlds. In M. de Valck, & A. Damiens (Eds.), Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After (269-289). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14171-3_14

This chapter is in part a manifesto and in part an engagement with the thinking and practice already re-shaping film festivals in this era of decolonization and Covid-19. We take as a starting point and analyze the provocative docu-fiction film title... Read More about Toward Decolonized Film Festival Worlds.

Perspectives: a round-table discussion on decolonial pedagogies (2022)
Journal Article
Dovey, L., Mangalanayagam, N., & Mistry, J. (2022). Perspectives: a round-table discussion on decolonial pedagogies. Film Education Journal, 5(1), 24-33. https://doi.org/10.14324/fej.05.1.03

Three practitioners – a film-maker, a photographer and a film curator, all working in higher education, teaching film production, photography and film studies – discuss their reflections on co-convening a decolonising pedagogy workshop–conference hos... Read More about Perspectives: a round-table discussion on decolonial pedagogies.

The Asian-African Film Connection: Cross-Cultural Imaginaries, Shared Sources, Parallel Histories (introduction to special issue of same name) (2021)
Journal Article
Dovey, L., & Taylor-Jones, K. (2021). The Asian-African Film Connection: Cross-Cultural Imaginaries, Shared Sources, Parallel Histories (introduction to special issue of same name). Open Screens, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.16995/os.37

This Dossier is inspired by two urgent needs in Film and Screen Studies, particularly within the UK context, but also globally – the need to transform the content of what we research and teach, and the need to transform the methodologies through whic... Read More about The Asian-African Film Connection: Cross-Cultural Imaginaries, Shared Sources, Parallel Histories (introduction to special issue of same name).

The Asian-African Film Connection: Cross-Cultural Imaginaries, Shared Sources, Parallel Histories (2021)
Other
The Asian-African Film Connection: Cross-Cultural Imaginaries, Shared Sources, Parallel Histories. UK

The four, co-authored articles presented here emerged out of a one-day workshop held at SOAS in July 2018, called “The Asian-African Film Connection” – an event specifically designed to bring UK-based scholars of Asian and African film into conversat... Read More about The Asian-African Film Connection: Cross-Cultural Imaginaries, Shared Sources, Parallel Histories.

On Teaching and Being Taught: Reflections on Decolonising Pedagogy (2020)
Journal Article
Dovey, L. (2020). On Teaching and Being Taught: Reflections on Decolonising Pedagogy. Parse, 11, 1-26

In this deeply personal article, Lindiwe Dovey explores ways of decolonising teaching and pedagogy through reflecting in particular on her own lived experiences and positioning as both student and teacher. Through embedding in her writing photographs... Read More about On Teaching and Being Taught: Reflections on Decolonising Pedagogy.

Toolkit 5: Senegal on the Screen (2020)
Book Chapter
Sendra Fernandez, E. (2020). Toolkit 5: Senegal on the Screen. In L. Dovey (Ed.), Screen Worlds Toolkits (1-10). Screen Worlds

Listening Between the Images: African Filmmakers’ Take on the Soviet Union, Soviet Filmmakers’ Take on Africa (2019)
Book Chapter
Dovey, L. (2020). Listening Between the Images: African Filmmakers’ Take on the Soviet Union, Soviet Filmmakers’ Take on Africa. In X. Lu (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190885533.013.15

This article explores the relationships between African filmmakers and communism during the Cold War period, with a particular focus on those African filmmakers who were trained in the Soviet Union, such as Sarah Maldoror, Ousmane Sembene, and Abderr... Read More about Listening Between the Images: African Filmmakers’ Take on the Soviet Union, Soviet Filmmakers’ Take on Africa.

Cinema in Ethiopia : Genre, Melodrama and the Commercial Amharic Film Industry (2019)
Thesis
Thomas, M. W. Cinema in Ethiopia : Genre, Melodrama and the Commercial Amharic Film Industry. (Thesis). SOAS, University of London

This thesis explores the emergence of the commercially viable Amharic film industry in Ethiopia, investigating its system of genres and the manifestation of an Ethiopian-style melodrama. Emerging in 2002 from an economic scenario devoid of government... Read More about Cinema in Ethiopia : Genre, Melodrama and the Commercial Amharic Film Industry.

Entertaining Africans: Creative Innovation in the (Internet) Television Space (2018)
Journal Article
Dovey, L. (2018). Entertaining Africans: Creative Innovation in the (Internet) Television Space. Media Industries, 5(2), 93-110. https://doi.org/10.3998/mij.15031809.0005.206

In the growing scholarly literature on internet television, Africa is mentioned tangentially, if at all. This article attempts to rectify this by offering one of the first studies of Africa-based and Africa-focused internet television and video on de... Read More about Entertaining Africans: Creative Innovation in the (Internet) Television Space.

On the Matter of Fiction: An Approach to the Marginalization of African Film Studies in the Global Academy (2016)
Journal Article
Dovey, L. (2016). On the Matter of Fiction: An Approach to the Marginalization of African Film Studies in the Global Academy. Black camera, 7(2), 159-173. https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.7.2.159

This article adopts a polemical tone to argue that factual rather than fictional media modes are gradually being privileged globally to the extent that we find ourselves—as academics, but also as citizens—in the grips of a dangerous “regime of truth”... Read More about On the Matter of Fiction: An Approach to the Marginalization of African Film Studies in the Global Academy.

'Bergman in Uganda': Ugandan Veejays, Swedish Pirates, and the Political Value of Live Adaptation (2015)
Book Chapter
Dovey, L. (2015). 'Bergman in Uganda': Ugandan Veejays, Swedish Pirates, and the Political Value of Live Adaptation. In D. Hassler-Forest, & P. Nicklas (Eds.), The Politics of Adaptation: Media Convergence and Ideology (99-113). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137443854_8

In early May 2014, the Swedish artist Markus Öhrn premiered the first part of his project ‘Bergman in Uganda’ at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, Belgium. The premiere involved a screening of Ingmar Bergman’s signature film Persona (1966), int... Read More about 'Bergman in Uganda': Ugandan Veejays, Swedish Pirates, and the Political Value of Live Adaptation.