African film and literature : : adapting violence to the screen / / Lindiwe Dovey.

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Superior document:Film and culture
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Place / Publishing House:New York : : Columbia University Press,, [2009]
2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Film and culture.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (356 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Gai Ramaka's Karmen gei (2001)
  • Humanizing the Old Testament's origins, historicizing genocide's origins : Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La genese (1999).