African film and literature adapting violence to the screen / Lindiwe Dovey.
| Author/creator | Dovey, Lindiwe |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Columbia University Press, |
| Description | xviii, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Film and culture Film and culture. ^A303731 |
| 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 Gaï Ramaka's Karmen geï (2001) -- Humanizing the Old Testament's origins, historicizing genocide's origins : Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La genèse (1999). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-324) and index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes filmography: p. [289]-298. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008042411 |
| ISBN | 9780231147545 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0231147546 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780231147552 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0231147554 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780231519380 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 0231519389 (ebook) |