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    Angelique in San Francisco (a novella)

    By Matthew Asprey

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    Angelique, a young Australian backpacker, travels to San Francisco for the world's first Festival of Dhaban First Wave Cinema. This film movement briefly flourished in the West African nation of Dhaba between 1969 and 1974, a period of creative freedom between repressive dictatorships. Adopted at birth to Australian aid workers, Angelique is in fact the daughter of Jean Bouchard (a French director and mentor of the movement) and the beautiful Dhaban actress Nafissa N’Diaye.
    Angelique is in town to learn what she can about her long-dead parents. The festival is the stepping stone to an eventual Criterion Collection boxset, and others have come to San Francisco to fight for what will constitute the canon of the Dhaban First Wave: Miles Skarpås, Swedish academic and festival curator; the bitter 'Colorado Kid', once tortured by Dhaban security forces and now independent historian of the movement; and Souleymane Foumo, one of the original Dhaban directors who escaped the tragic fate of his colleagues for success in French television.
    Set entirely at night in a repressive atmosphere of Patriot Act paranoia, Angelique in San Francisco dramatizes the ironies of canon-formation and a young woman's quest to discover her heritage.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMatthew Asprey
    Release dateNov 9, 2012
    ISBN9781301488285
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    Matthew Asprey

    MATTHEW ASPREY GEAR is an Australian writer. His book 'At The End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the City' is now available from Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press. He is one of the founding editors of Contrappasso Magazine. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Senses of Cinema, Bright Lights Film Journal, Crime Factory, PopMatters, Island, Extempore, and Over My Dead Body! Many of his novellas are available in chapbook and ebook formats. In 2011 Matthew Asprey Gear graduated with a PhD in Media Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney. He has lectured on cinema and creative writing. Some of his work is published under the name Matthew Asprey. It’s all his.

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