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  • Africanity and Orality in the Films/Videos of Women Filmmakers of the African Diaspora 
    Ebrahim, Haseenah (Deep Focus: A Film Quarterly, 1998)
    In this essay, I consider the role of African cultural heritage and of oral tradition in selected films/videos by women filmmakers of the African Diaspora. for practical purposes, I limit the scope of my analysis to the ...
  • RE-VIEWING THE TROPICAL PARADISE: AFRO-CARIBBEAN WOMEN FILMMAKERS 
    Unknown author (Northwestern University, 1998)
    This dissertation presents a new conceptual framework, a "pan-African feminist" critical model, to examine how Euzhan Palcy of Martinique, Gloria Rolando and the late Sara Gómez of Cuba, and the Sistren Collective ...
  • Women Screenwriters: South Africa 
    Ebrahim, Haseenah (2014-08-31)
    Emerging from this research undertaken to map the presence of women screenwriters in the South African film industry, are two significant findings: first, an awareness that while a few women of colour have begun to enter ...
  • From "ghetto" to mainstream: Bollywood in South Africa 
    Ebrahim, Haseenah (Scrutiny2, 2008)
    This essay explores two aspects of the Bollywood "phenomenon" as it has played out, in the past decade, in South Africa - a part of the Indian diaspora where the popularity of the Hindi-Indian cinema has an established ...
  • Sarita and the Revolution: Race and Cuban Cinema 
    Ebrahim, Haseenah (European Review of Latin American and Carribean Studies, 2007-04)
    This essay explores questions of race and ethnicity in relation to Cuban cinema during the height of the Revolution, focusing in particular on one filmmaker, the late Sara Gómez. This essay argues that while contemporary ...