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1 online resource (xviii, 334 pages) : illustrations |
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Film and culture |
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Film and culture.
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Cinema and violence in South Africa -- Fools and victims : adapting rationalized rape into feminist film -- Redeeming features : screening HIV/AIDS, screening out rape in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi -- From black and white to "coloured" : racial identity in 1950s and 1990s South Africa in two versions of A walk in the night -- Audio-visualizing "invisible" violence : remaking and reinventing Cry, the beloved country -- Cinema and violence in francophone West Africa -- Losing the plot, restoring the lost chapter : Aristotle in Cameroon -- African incar(me)nation : Joseph Gaï Ramaka's Karmen geï (2001) -- Humanizing the Old Testament's origins, historicizing genocide's origins : Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La genèse (1999) |
| Summary |
"Analyzing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking-one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique of physical and psychological violence. Against a detailed history of the medium's savage introduction and exploitation by colonial powers in two very different African contexts, Dovey examines the complex ways in which African filmmakers are preserving, mediating, and critiquing their own cultures while seeking a united vision of the future. More than merely representing socio-cultural realities in Africa, these films engage with issues of colonialism and postcolonialism, 'updating' both the history and the literature they adapt to address contemporary audiences in Africa and elsewhere. Through this deliberate and radical re-historicization of texts and realities, Dovey argues that African filmmakers have developed a method of filmmaking that is altogether distinct from European and American forms of adaptation."--Book cover |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-324) and index |
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Includes filmography: pages 289-298 |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Motion pictures -- Africa.
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Violence in motion pictures.
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ART -- Film & Video.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Motion pictures
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Violence in motion pictures
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Gewalt Motiv
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Film
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Movies.
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Literature.
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Violence.
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Filmings.
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Cinematography.
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Film -- Afrika.
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Afrikansk litteratur.
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Våld på film, Afrika.
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Filmen och litteraturen, Afrika.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- In motion pictures.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001716
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Africa
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Afrika
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Africa.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780231519380 |
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0231519389 |
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