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African Film and Literature : Adapting Violence to the Screen /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[2009]
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| Colección: | Film and Culture Series
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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