Pierre Haffner
Pierre Haffner (1943-2000) was a French film critic, "one of the first French critics to seriously study African film".[1]
Life
Pierre Haffner was born in Mulhouse.[2] In the 1970s he lived in Zaire, becoming an expert in the cinema of Zaire. In November 1977 he interviewed his friend Ousmane Sembène in Kinshasa.[3]
He died of cancer on 12 November 2000.[2]
Works
- Essai sur les fondements du cinéma africain. Abidjan: Les nouvelles éditions africaines, 1976.
- Palabres sur le cinématographe: initiation au cinéma, Kinshasa: Presses africaines, 1978.
- 'Entretien avec le père Alexandre Van den Heuvel', Afrique littéraire et artistique, No. 48, 1978, p. 88
- 'Jean Rouch jugé par six cinéaste d’Áfrique noire: Safi Faye, Daniel Kamwa, Rihard de Medeiros, Moussa Yoro Bathily, Oumarou Ganda et Inoussa Ousseini.' Jean Rouch, un griot gaulois. CinéAction, No. 17, 1982.
- Petit à Petit en question: le film de Jean Rouch discuté dans deux ciné-clubs d’Afrique noire. CinéAction, No. 17, 1982.
- Jean Renoir. Paris: Rivages, 1987
- (with André Gardies) Regards sur le cinéma négro-africain. Brussels: OCIC, 1987.
References
- ^ Olivier Barlet (2016). Contemporary African Cinema. MSU Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-62895-270-4.
- ^ a b 'Pierre Haffner', Notre Librarie: Revue des literatures du Sud (Cinemas d'Afrique), 2002.
- ^ Haffner, Pierre (2008). "Sembène Ousmane in Kinshasa". Ousmane Sembène: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 82–. ISBN 978-1-934110-86-7.
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