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ET PAIX. Les Rwandais et les Burundais face au cinéma et à
l’audiovisuel.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-ansi-language: FR">Une
histoire politici-culturelle du Ruanda-Urundi allemand et belge et des
Républiques du Rwanda et du Burundi (1896 – 2008)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">The
Rwandans and Burundians have a fascinating filmographic and audiovisual history,
in which a part of the history of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
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w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:City></st1:place> was also written. Since the emergence
of film they have been faced with this invention, which was both an art and
means of propaganda for the earlier colonial rulers and later for a variety of
regimes. Hardly strange then that the first full length “Burundian” film wasn’t
made until 1992 and that it was only five years after the genocide that a
Rwandan producer made a full-length film (Hundred Days). After 2003 it seemed
that there was room in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Rwanda</st1:country-region>
and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Burundi</st1:country-region></st1:place> for all kinds of initiatives,
thanks to greater political and cultural freedom and the digital
revolution.<BR>Guido Convents’s book throws light on the protagonists of Rwandan
and Burundian audiovisual culture, as regards the government, the public, the
directors, the interpreters and distributors. He looks into the relationship
between the Rwandan and Burundian populations and the images they produce, and
notes that there are many causal connections. Rwandans and Burundians are very
well aware of the role that audiovisual productions play in the peace process in
the region.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Biography<BR>Historian
and anthropologist, Guido Convents is a renowned expert on films from the
developing countries. He is a member of SIGNIS (Catholic Association for
Communication and Media). He has authored several works on colonial and African
films. In 1980 he began publishing regularly on topics affecting the entire
great lakes region: <st1:country-region w:st="on">Congo</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Rwanda</st1:country-region> and <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Burundi</st1:country-region></st1:place>. Along with Guido Huysmans he
is the linchpin of the Africa Film Festival, and many other initiatives designed
to preserve and promote the film and audiovisual heritage of <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Congo</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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book counts 608 pages, 185 photos, a 30-page bibliography, filmography, index,
and extensive (500) footnotes.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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