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Informationen zum Autor Lindiwe Dovey is lecturer in African film and performance arts at the School of Oriental and African Studies! University of London. She holds a BA Honors degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. She is the founding director of the Cambridge African Film Festival and has made both documentary and fiction films. Klappentext Reading a range of South African and Francophone West African films inspired by African and non-African literature! Lindiwe Dovey identifies the trends and movements that suggest a collective African identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Film StillsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: "African Cinema": Problems and Possibilities1. Cinema and Violence in South Africa2. Fools and Victims: Adapting Rationalized Rape into Feminist Film3. Redeeming Features: Screening HIV/AIDS! Screening Out Rape in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi 4. From Black and White to "Coloured": Racial Identity in 1950s and 1990s South Africa in Two Versions of A Walk in the Night5. Audio-visualizing "Invisible" Violence: Remaking and Reinventing Cry! the Beloved Country6. Cinema and Violence in Francophone West Africa7. Losing the Plot! Restoring the Lost Chapter: Aristotle in Cameroon8. African Incar(me)nation: Joseph Ga' Ramaka's Karmen Ge' (2001) 9. Humanizing the Old Testament's Origins! Historicizing Genocide's Origins: Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La GenSse (1999)ConclusionNotesFilmographyBibliographyIndex
