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Slave revolt on screen : the Haitian Revolution in film and video games /
"In Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games author Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall analyzes how films and video games from around the world have depicted slave revolt, focusing on the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). This event, the first successful revolution by enslav...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I: Foreign views of the Revolution. An unthinkable plot? The Haitian Revolution in US and European feature films ; Invoking the Revolution in Caribbean feature films ; Handling Haiti in HUAC-era Hollywood: 20th Century Fox's Lydia Bailey ; No white hero, no funding? Unmade Revolution epics ; Black lives mattered in the Haitian Revolution: Hollywood and slavery in Chris Rock's Top Five ; Remembering Haiti's Revolution in France and North America: documentaries, dramatic shorts, and animation
- Part II: Haitian cinematic perspectives. From the Duvalier years through the 2004 bicentennial: reflections on the Revolution's legacy ; The rising generation, Toussaint Louverture, and the problem of funding
- Part III: Video games on slavery and the Haitian Revolution. North American and European games; From MECC's Freedom! to Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry ; French Caribbean games: honoring rebel ancestors in Méwilo and Freedom: Rebels in the Darkness
- Conclusion.