The genre and the non-genre in the camerounais cinema

What if the apparent chaos of Cameroonian cinema concealed the emergence of a new genre?Through a detailed and rigorous analysis this book explores the complexity of Cameroonian filmmakers' relationship with the notion of film genre. Between ignorance deliberate rejection and a desire for transcendence a practice marked by vagueness-but rich in meaning-emerges. By interviewing filmmakers critics and film enthusiasts the author offers an illuminating typology of genre and non-genre in Cameroon and invites us to rethink the canons in light of local realities. An original and necessary look at the aesthetic cultural and sociological challenges of Cameroonian filmmaking.