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African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen / Lindiwe Dovey.
LIBRA PN1993.5.A35 D68 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dovey, Lindiwe.
- Series:
- Film and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Africa.
- Motion pictures.
- Africa.
- Africa--In motion pictures.
- Violence in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2009]
- 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).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-324) and index.
- Includes filmography: pages [289]-298.
- ISBN:
- 9780231147545
- 0231147546
- 9780231147552
- 0231147554
- 9780231519380
- 0231519389
- OCLC:
- 258333558
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