Abstract Having worked in West Africa for over 60 years, Jean Rouch has long been a contentious figure in African film circles. Though his collaborative and participatory methods aimed to challenge the colonial and postcolonial status quo, they did so from within the very structures and systems of support that secured the French presence in West Africa. Taking the prickly relationship between Rouch and Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène as a starting point, this essay argues that, while understandable and instructive in many respects, the distance maintained between Rouch and post-independence African filmmakers has done a disservice to Rouch’s collaborators hailing from West Africa, effectively effacing them from both French and African film histories. Given that African cinema is in a moment of profound transformation, the author contends that the time is ripe to open up a new kind of dialogue between Rouch and his African contemporaries.

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超越昆虫学的批评：重新思考鲁什和非洲电影

摘要让·鲁什（Jean Rouch）在西非工作了60多年，长期以来一直是非洲电影界有争议的人物。尽管他的合作和参与式方法旨在挑战殖民地和后殖民地的现状，但它们却是从确保法国在西非存在的支持结构和体系内进行的。本文以鲁什与塞内加尔电影制片人OusmaneSembène之间的尖刻关系为出发点，认为尽管鲁什与独立后的非洲电影制片人之间保持着距离，尽管在很多方面都是可以理解和指导的，但对鲁什的合作伙伴从西方欢呼是有害的非洲，有效地使他们从法国和非洲电影史中消失了。鉴于非洲电影正处于深刻变革的时刻，