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    > Subject: FW: Films for Teaching African Arts?: REPLY
    > Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:04:28 -0500
    >
    > cross posted from H-AfrArts (Editor, R.A.
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    >
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    > >
    > > Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997
    > > From: Eli Bentor <bentore@appstate.edu>
    > >
    > > One film that I have used for seminars on masks and masquerade
    > > is an old Ousmane Sembene film called _La Noire de..._ or _Black
    > > Girl_. It tells the story of a nanny employed by a French
    > > family in Dakar and later brought as a servant to France. It is
    > > about 60 minutes long and is available from New Yorker Film. I
    > > use it because a central 'prop' in the film is a mask that is
    > > first given to the French family by the maid, and later turns
    > > into her only contact with Africa. It says something important
    > > about the ability of objects to change their meaning . The last
    > > scene of the film is particularly powerful.
    > >
    >

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