African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen / Lindiwe Dovey.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Film and culturePublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2009]Copyright date: �2009Description: 1 online resource (356 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231519380 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen.DDC classification:
  • 791.43096 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.A35 D68 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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).
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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).

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