African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen
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1. Verfasser: Dovey, Lindiwe (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Columbia University Press 2009
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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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (550 p)
ISBN:9780231519380

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