African Film and Literature - Adapting Violence to the Screen

Klappentext Reading a range of South African and Francophone West African films inspired by African and non-African literature! including Gavin Hood's Tsotsi (2006) and Mickey Madoda Dube's A Walk in the Night (1998)! Lindiwe Dovey identifies the trends and movements that suggest a collective African identity. Though she remains sensitive to different cinematic traditions and methods of production across Africa! Dovey pinpoints certain shared historical experiences! as well as a united vision of the future. She provides in-depth histories of the way in which the film medium was violently introduced and exploited by colonial powers in Africa. These histories provide a backdrop for her engagement with films and literary texts that conceptualize! visualize! and critique physical and psychological violence. More than being acutely concerned with the socio-cultural realities of life in Africa! these films engage with issues of colonialism and postcolonialism! "updating" both the history and the literature they adapt. Through this deliberate re-historicization of texts and realities! Dovey argues! African filmmakers critique past and present forms of violence and develop a method of filmmaking that is altogether distinct from European and American forms of adaptation.

Product details

• Authors: Lindiwe Dovey
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.05.2009
• EAN: 9780231147552
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14755-2
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Film and Culture Series; Film Culture; Film and Culture Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV