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

Author/creator Dovey, Lindiwe
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press,
Descriptionxviii, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesFilm 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [299]-324) and index.
Bibliography noteIncludes filmography: p. [289]-298.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008042411
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