Framing Africa : portrayals of a continent in contemporary mainstream cinema / edited by Nigel Eltringham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eltringham, Nigel

Contributor:

Eltringham, Nigel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Europe--History--21st century.

Motion pictures.

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

Africa--In motion pictures.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on African politics and society. While once the continent was the setting for narratives of heroic ascendancy over self (The African Queen, 1951; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, 1952), military odds (Zulu, 1964; Khartoum, 1966) and nature (Mogambo, 1953; Hatari!,1962; Born Free, 1966; The Last Safari, 1967), this new wave of films portrays a continent blighted by transnational corruption (The Constant Gardener, 2005), genocide (Hotel Rwanda, 2004; Shooting Dogs, 2006), 'failed states' (Blac

Contents:

Introduction: Cinema/chimera? the re-presencing of Africa in twenty-first-century film / Nigel Eltringham

"Print the legend": myth and reality in The last King of Scotland / Mark Leopold

Black Hawk down: recasting U.S. military history at Somali expense / Lidwien Kapteijns

Pharma in Africa: health, corruption and contemporary Kenya in The constant gardener / Daniel Branch

War in the city, crime in the country: Blood diamond and the representation of violence in the Sierra Leone War / Danny Hoffman

Showing what cannot be imagined: Shooting dogs and Hotel Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham

Torture, betrayal and forgiveness: Red dust and the search for truth in post-apartheid South Africa / Annelies Verdoolaege

Go Amabokoboko! rugby, race, madiba and the Invictus creation myth of a new South Africa / Derek Charles Catsam.

Notes:

Includes filmography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80758-856-4

1-78238-074-4

OCLC:

855505467