The "Monumental" Heroine: Female Agency in Joseph Gaï Ramaka's "Karmen Geï"

Karmen Geï presents itself as a feminist African film with a scandalously revolutionary central character. These aspects of the film are reconsidered by focusing attention on the totality of its form, and by studying the politics of monumentalizing the heroine.

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Cinema journal 2012-07, Vol.51 (4), p.66-86
Main Author: Prabhu, Anjali
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Character
Criticism and interpretation
Diegesis
Dramas
Feature films
Female homosexuality
Females
Femininity
Feminism
Feminism and motion pictures
Feminist film theory
Feminist motion pictures
Film criticism
Film musicals
Filmmakers
Heroines
Identity
Literary characters
Logic
Meaning
Motion picture criticism
Motion picture directors & producers
Motion pictures, African
Movies
Persuasion
Politics
Prisons
Ramaka, Joseph Gai
Romances
Samba
Sociopolitical influences
Spectator
Theater
Women
Works
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Summary:Karmen Geï presents itself as a feminist African film with a scandalously revolutionary central character. These aspects of the film are reconsidered by focusing attention on the totality of its form, and by studying the politics of monumentalizing the heroine.
ISSN:0009-7101
1527-2087
2578-4900
1527-2087
DOI:10.1353/cj.2012.0088