African Film and Literature : : Adapting Violence to the Screen / / Lindiwe Dovey.
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 psychol...
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Dovey, Lindiwe, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut African Film and Literature : Adapting Violence to the Screen / Lindiwe Dovey. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2009] ©2009 1 online resource (360 p.) : 174 color images, and 4 more for the cover text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Film and Culture Series Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Film Stills -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: "African Cinema": Problems and Possibilities -- 1. Cinema and Violence in South Africa -- 2. Fools and Victims. Adapting Rationalized Rape into Feminist Film -- 3. Redeeming Features: Screening HIV/AIDS, Screening Out Rape in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi -- 4. From Black and White to "Coloured". Racial Identity in 1950s and 1990s South Africa in Two Versions of A Walk in the Night -- 5. Audio-visualizing "Invisible" Violence: Remaking and Reinventing Cry, the Beloved Country -- 6. Cinema and Violence in Francophone West Africa -- 7. Losing the Plot, Restoring the Lost Chapter: Aristotle in Cameroon -- 8. African Incar(me)nation. Joseph Gaï Ramaka's Karmen Geï (2001) -- 9. Humanizing the Old Testament's Origins, Historicizing Genocide's Origins. Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La Genèse (1999) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Motion pictures Africa. Violence in motion pictures. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442472 print 9780231147552 https://doi.org/10.7312/dove14754 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231519380 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231519380/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Film Stills -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: "African Cinema": Problems and Possibilities -- 1. Cinema and Violence in South Africa -- 2. Fools and Victims. Adapting Rationalized Rape into Feminist Film -- 3. Redeeming Features: Screening HIV/AIDS, Screening Out Rape in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi -- 4. From Black and White to "Coloured". Racial Identity in 1950s and 1990s South Africa in Two Versions of A Walk in the Night -- 5. Audio-visualizing "Invisible" Violence: Remaking and Reinventing Cry, the Beloved Country -- 6. Cinema and Violence in Francophone West Africa -- 7. Losing the Plot, Restoring the Lost Chapter: Aristotle in Cameroon -- 8. African Incar(me)nation. Joseph Gaï Ramaka's Karmen Geï (2001) -- 9. Humanizing the Old Testament's Origins, Historicizing Genocide's Origins. Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La Genèse (1999) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index |
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