African Film and Literature : : Adapting Violence to the Screen /

African Film and Literature : : Adapting Violence to the Screen / / Lindiwe Dovey.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Dovey, Lindiwe,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Film and Culture Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 174 color images, and 4 more for the cover
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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