African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen /

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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 p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dovey, Lindiwe (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Film and culture.
Temas:
Motion pictures > Africa.
Violence in motion pictures.
Violence au cinéma.
ART > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Motion pictures.
Gewalt > Motiv
Film
Movies.
Literature.
Violence.
Filmings.
Cinematography.
Film > Afrika.
Afrikansk litteratur.
Våld på film, Afrika.
Filmen och litteraturen, Afrika.
Africa > In motion pictures.
Africa.
Afrika
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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).

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