Ebrahim, Haseenah

Ebrahim, Haseenah

 

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  • Science-women: Arcane knowledge and African spirituality in independent African-American cinema of the 1990s 
    Ebrahim, Haseenah (African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, 2020)
    This article explores the significant role played by arcane knowledge and expressions of African spirituality in the iconography of powerful black women in three films directed by independent African-American filmmakers ...
  • Traversing the cinemascape of contemporary South Africa: A peripatetic journey. 
    Ebrahim, Haseenah (2018-04)
    This article offers a series of observations, reflections, descriptions and opinions as stopping points on a tour of the multifaceted cinemascape of South Africa. It addresses how discourses of cinema in South Africa ...
  • The cinematic life of the Sistren Theatre Collective: Forays into biographical documentary 
    Ebrahim, Haseenah (2016)
    This article explores two biographical video documentaries produced by the Sistren Theater Collective of Jamaica. Together, the documentaries, Miss Amy and Miss May and The Drums Keep Sounding, document the lives of ...
  • ARE THE “BOYS” AT PIXAR AFRAID OF LITTLE GIRLS? 
    Ebrahim, haseenah (Journal of Film and Video, 2015)
    The notion that American animated films are somehow excluded from ideological concerns, that they are “ideologically empty,” so to speak, reflects a widespread perception within both the USA and South Africa that children’s ...
  • 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 ...
  • Afrocuban religions in Sara Gomez's one way or another and Gloria Ronaldo's Oggun 
    Ebrahim, Haseenah (The Western Journal of Black Studies, 1998)
    This paper explores the depiction of Afrocuban religions in two films - Sara Gomez's One way or another(1974/1977) and Gloria Rolando's Oggun: Forever present(1991).A (Western) feminist's analysis of Gomez's One way or ...