Hollywood and Africa : Recycling the 'Dark Continent' Myth from 1908-2020 /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dokotum, Okaka Opio (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Makhanda, South Africa : NISC (Pty) Ltd, 2020.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Mass media.
Africa in popular culture.
Motion pictures.
Cinema > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire.
Motion pictures > California > Los Angeles > History.
California > Los Angeles.
Africa.
Afrique > Dans les medias.
Africa > In popular culture.
Africa > In mass media.
Africa > In motion pictures.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Dedication
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreward [sic]
  • Preface
  • List of plates
  • Introduction. Scope ; Breakdown of chapters
  • GENERAL OVERVIEW. 1. Constructing the 'Dark Continent'. Which Africa? Whose Africa? ; Africa in colonial novels
  • 2. Manifestations of Hollywood's Africas. The myth of 'whiteness' ; Dark Continent narrative methodology ; Classical Hollywood films about Africa ; Neoclassical Hollywood films about Africa ; New wave Hollywood-Africa films
  • ADAPTATION MODELS. 3. Ventriloquising the Dark Continent myth. The film adaptation and colonial nostalgia ; Genre and narrative ; Style and ideology ; Jungle romance ; Mapping and conquest ; The iconography of racist representation ; It's a relay race ; Notes
  • 4. Colonial nostalgia. Where is Sierra Leone? ; TIA: this is Africa! ; Violence is a way of life in Africa ; Helpless Africans ; Diamonds are the problem ; Hollywood trademarks ; Racism ; Disposable darkies and the sacrosanct white body ; Archer as Christ figure ; Mercenary saviours: colonialism redux ; A missed opportunity ; Notes
  • 5. Militainment and historical distortion. Which Nigeria and whose Nigeria? ; Hollywood's idea of Africa ; Wiping the tears of Africa ; Genre dissonance ; Trivialising African history ; Demonising the Nigerian military ; Militainment and historical revisionism ; Do(ing) the right thing!
  • 6. This is 'a true story!'. Contesting memory re-construction in Hotel Rwanda ; Survivors speak out ; This is 'a true story', or is it? ; Hotel Rwanda and An ordinary man: the narrative interchange ; Contesting heroic mythography and celebrity discourse in Hotel Rwanda ; Hotel Rwanda and the search for justice, peace and reconciliation ; Hollywood's Frankenstein
  • 7. Ideological effacement and heroic self-transcendence. The scramble for Mandela's biopics ; Invictus: the screen incarnation of Mandela ; Reading South African history through Mandela's life ; Invictus as spectacular history ; Mythography in Invictus ; What is 'rosebud?'
  • NEW APPROACHES. 8. Metatextuality and transnational film production. The 'Dark Continent' revisited ; Colonial nostalgia ; Kevin Macdonald's adaptation: mining for gold 'i but mitta' ; Cinematic trumping of novelistic content ; Location shooting ; Acting as critique ; Music as metanarrative ; Will the real Amin please stand up? ; Notes
  • 9. Cyberactivism against 'whitewashing'. 10. Afro-optimism. Based on a true story ; Defining Afro-optimism ; The uplifting story ; breaking the cycle of Afro pessimism ; Local production context ; Novel-film interchange ; Katwe as a character ; The Dark Continent still lingers ; Phiona rising! ; Notes
  • 11. Afrofuturism. Synopsis ; African setting ; All-black cast ; Black panther movie and Black Panther Party ; Indictment of colonialism ; Not yet Uhuru!
  • Conclusion
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Back cover.

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