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Hollywood's Africa after 1994 investigates Hollywood's colonial film legacy in the postapartheid era, and contemplates what has changed in the West's representations of Africa. How do we read twenty-first-century projections of human rights issues-child soldiers, genocide, the exploit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Higgins, MaryEllen, 1967- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Motion pictures.
Imperialism in motion pictures.
Human rights in motion pictures.
Culture conflict in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Imperialisme au cinema.
Cinema > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 21st century.
United States.
Africa.
Africa > In motion pictures.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: African blood, Hollywood's diamonds? Hollywood's Africa after 1994 / MaryEllen Higgins
  • The cited and the uncited: toward an emancipatory reading of representations of Africa / Harry Garuba and Natasha Himmelman
  • The troubled terrain of human rights films: Blood diamond, The last king of Scotland, and, The devil came on horseback / Margaret R. Higonnet, with Ethel R. Higonnet
  • Hollywood's representations of human rights: the case of Terry George's Hotel Rwanda / Joyce B. Ashuntantang
  • Hollywood's cowboy humanitarianism in Black Hawk down and Tears of the sun / MaryEllen Higgins
  • Again, the darkness: Shake hands with the devil / Kenneth W. Harrow
  • Ambiguities and paradoxes: framing northern intervention in The constant gardener / Christopher Odhiambo Joseph
  • Minstrelsy and mythic appetites: The last king of Scotland's heart of darkness in the Jubilee Year of African independence / Ricardo Guthrie
  • "An image of Africa": representations of modern colonialism in Africa in Peter Jackson's King Kong / Clifford T. Manlove
  • Plus 'a change, plus c'est la meme chose: Hollywood's constructions of Africa in Lord of war / Earl Conteh-Morgan
  • New Jack African cinema: Dangerous ground; Cry, the beloved country; and Blood diamond / Bennetta Jules-Rosette, J.R. Osborn, and Lea Marie Ruiz-Ade
  • "It is a very rough game, almost as rough as politics": rugby as visual metaphor and the future of the new South Africa in Invictus / Christopher Garland
  • "Every brother ain't a brother": cultural dissonance and Nigerian malaise in District 9's new South Africa / Kimberly Nichele Brown
  • Coaxing the beast out of the cage: secrecy and disclosure in Red dust and Catch a fire / Jane Bryce
  • Situating agency in Blood diamond and Ezra / Iyunolu Osagie
  • Bye bye Hollywood: African cinema and its double in Mahamet-Saleh Haroun's Bye bye Africa / Dayna Oscherwitz.

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