Decolonising Film
and Screen Studies
‘African Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies’ is a five-year, European Research Council-funded research project led by Professor Lindiwe Dovey and hosted at SOAS University of London (from 2019 to 2024). Through producing research films, video essays, edited books, articles, and toolkits, and through curating workshops, conversations, film screenings and panel discussions, the project explores in particular Africans’ contributions to the diverse, complex screen worlds that make up audiovisual cultures in our contemporary moment. It is also interested in putting African cinemas into conversation with other regional cinemas so that we can theorise global screen worlds in more inclusive, nuanced, decolonised ways.
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Advisory board

Moradewun Adejunmobi

Shelley Barry

Chris Berry

Joanna Callaghan

Jorge Cohen

Rajinder Dudrah

Muyiwa Falaiye

June Givanni

Catherine Grant

Zebunnisa Hamid

Kenneth W. Harrow

Jonathan Haynes

Katarina Hedrén

Alessandro Jedlowski

Ananya Jahanara Kabir

Griseldis Kirsch

Song Hwee LIM

Ramon Lobato

Xiaoning Lu

Caspar Melville

Litheko Modisane

Nashen Moodley

Laura Mulvey

Lúcia Nagib

Jacqueline Nsiah

Elias Ribeiro

Meera Sabaratnam

Masha Salazkina

Estrella Sendra

Weerada Sucharitkul

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Louisa Wei

Zhang Yong
Contact
SOAS
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom
Lindiwe Dovey
Principal investigator
ld18@soas.ac.uk
Shekira Preston
Project coordinator
sp78@soas.ac.uk
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