African film and literature: adapting violence to the screen
"Analyzing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking-one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique of physical and p...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Analyzing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking-one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique of physical and psychological violence. Against a detailed history of the medium's savage introduction and exploitation by colonial powers in two very different African contexts, Dovey examines the complex ways in which African filmmakers are preserving, mediating, and critiquing their own cultures while seeking a united vision of the future. More than merely representing socio-cultural realities in Africa, these films engage with issues of colonialism and postcolonialism, 'updating' both the history and the literature they adapt to address contemporary audiences in Africa and elsewhere. Through this deliberate and radical re-historicization of texts and realities, Dovey argues that African filmmakers have developed a method of filmmaking that is altogether distinct from European and American forms of adaptation." -- Book cover. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XVIII, 334 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780231147545 9780231147552 |
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| adam_text | Titel: African film and literature
Autor: Dovey, Lindiwe
Jahr: 2009
CONTENTS
List of Film Stills ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction: African Cinema : Problems and Possibilities 1
1 Cinema and Violence in South Africa 34
2 Fools and Victims: Adapting Rationalized Rape into
Feminist Film 63
3 Redeeming Features: Screening HIV/AIDS, Screening Out Rape
in Gavin Hood s Tsotsi 90
4 From Black and White to Coloured : Racial Identity in 1950s
and 1990s South Africa in Two Versions of A Walk in the Night 119
5 Audio-visualizing Invisible Violence: Remaking and Reinventing
Cry, the Beloved Country 145
6 Cinema and Violence in Francophone West Africa 177
7 Losing the Plot, Restoring the Lost Chapter: Aristotle
in Cameroon 205
8 African Incar(me)nation: Joseph Gal Ramaka s Karmen
Gei (2001) 218
9 Humanizing the Old Testament s Origins, Historicizing Genocide s
Origins: Cheick Oumar Sissoko s La Genese (1999) 252
Conclusion 275
Notes 279
Filmography 289
Bibliography 299
Index 32s
FILM STILLS
From Fools (Courtesy of JBA Production, France)
2.1 Rape sequence 78-83
From Tsotsi (Courtesy of Peter Fudakowski)
3.1 Widescreen shots 100
3.2 Flashback shots 101
3.3 HIV/AIDS billboards 102
3.4 Closing sequence 111-116
From A Walk in the Night (Courtesy of California Newsreel)
4.1 Fire shots 132-33
4.2 Urination shots 134
4.3 Ngugi sequence 137
4.4 Gunshot sequence 142
4.5 Closing shot 143
From Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
(Courtesy of Videovision Entertainment)
5.1 Funeral sequence (1995 film) 159-163
5.2 Hanging sequence (1995 film) 168-174
From Karmen Get (Courtesy of California Newsreel)
8.1 Opening sequence 232-239
8.2 Aggressive dance sequence 243
From La Genese (Courtesy of California Newsreel)
9.1 Opening sequence 254
9.2 Two acts of violence 259
9.3 Circumcision sequence 260
9.4 Genocide sequence 262-63
9.5 Assembly of Nations sequence 265
9.6 Reconciliation sequence 273
FILM STILLS
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