African film and literature :
Dovey, Lindiwe,
African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen / Lindiwe Dovey. - 1 online resource (356 pages) : illustrations. - Film and culture . - Film and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-324) and index. Includes filmography: pages [289]-298.
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 Ga�i Ramaka's Karmen ge�i (2001) -- Humanizing the Old Testament's origins, historicizing genocide's origins : Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La gen�ese (1999).
9780231519380 (e-book)
Motion pictures--Africa.
Violence in motion pictures.
Africa--In motion pictures.
Electronic books.
PN1993.5.A35 / D68 2009eb
791.43096
African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen / Lindiwe Dovey. - 1 online resource (356 pages) : illustrations. - Film and culture . - Film and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-324) and index. Includes filmography: pages [289]-298.
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 Ga�i Ramaka's Karmen ge�i (2001) -- Humanizing the Old Testament's origins, historicizing genocide's origins : Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La gen�ese (1999).
9780231519380 (e-book)
Motion pictures--Africa.
Violence in motion pictures.
Africa--In motion pictures.
Electronic books.
PN1993.5.A35 / D68 2009eb
791.43096