Hollywood's Africa after 1994 / edited by MaryEllen Higgins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Higgins, MaryEllen, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights in motion pictures.

Imperialism in motion pictures.

Culture conflict in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--United States--History--21st century.

Motion pictures.

Africa--In motion pictures.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hollywood's Africa after 1994 investigates Hollywood's colonial film legacy in the post apartheid era, and contemplates what has changed in the West's representations of Africa. How do we read twenty-first-century projections of human rights issues-child soldiers, genocide, the exploitation of the poor by multinational corporations, dictatorial rule, truth and reconciliation-within the contexts of celebrity humanitarianism, "new" military humanitarianism, and Western support for regime change in Africa and beyond? A number of films after 1994, such as Black Hawk Down, Hotel Rwand

Contents:

Introduction: African blood, Hollywood's diamonds? Hollywood's Africa after 1994 / MaryEllen Higgins

The cited and the uncited: toward an emancipatory reading of representations of Africa / Harry Garuba and Natasha Himmelman

The troubled terrain of human rights films: Blood diamond, The last king of Scotland, and, The devil came on horseback / Margaret R. Higonnet, with Ethel R. Higonnet

Hollywood's representations of human rights: the case of Terry George's Hotel Rwanda / Joyce B. Ashuntantang

Hollywood's cowboy humanitarianism in Black Hawk down and Tears of the sun / MaryEllen Higgins

Again, the darkness: Shake hands with the devil / Kenneth W. Harrow

Ambiguities and paradoxes: framing northern intervention in The constant gardener / Christopher Odhiambo Joseph

Minstrelsy and mythic appetites: The last king of Scotland's heart of darkness in the Jubilee Year of African independence / Ricardo Guthrie

"An image of Africa": representations of modern colonialism in Africa in Peter Jackson's King Kong / Clifford T. Manlove

Plus 'a change, plus c'est la meme chose: Hollywood's constructions of Africa in Lord of war / Earl Conteh-Morgan

New Jack African cinema: Dangerous ground; Cry, the beloved country; and Blood diamond / Bennetta Jules-Rosette, J.R. Osborn, and Lea Marie Ruiz-Ade

"It is a very rough game, almost as rough as politics": rugby as visual metaphor and the future of the new South Africa in Invictus / Christopher Garland

"Every brother ain't a brother": cultural dissonance and Nigerian malaise in District 9's new South Africa / Kimberly Nichele Brown

Coaxing the beast out of the cage: secrecy and disclosure in Red dust and Catch a fire / Jane Bryce

Situating agency in Blood diamond and Ezra / Iyunolu Osagie

Bye bye Hollywood: African cinema and its double in Mahamet-Saleh Haroun's Bye bye Africa / Dayna Oscherwitz.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821444337

0821444336

OCLC:

819136153