Analyzing art house films from the African continent and the African diaspora, this book showcases a new generation of auteurs with African origins from political, aesthetic, and spectatorship perspectives. * Focuses on art house cinema and discusses commercial African cinema * Enlarges our understanding of African film to include thematic and aesthetic influence * Highlights aesthetic and political aspects including racial identity, women's issues, and diaspora * Heavily illustrated with over 90 film stills * Features selected stills integral to the filmic analysis in full color * Moves beyond Western-oriented analytical paradigms