Framing Africa

By - Eltringham, Nigel

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Berghahn Books, New York, NY, 2013

ISBN 10 - 1782380736

ISBN 13 - 9781782380733

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Motion pictures

Shelf No - 1

Call Number - 791.4365 ELT

Physical Description - 1 online resource (vi, 183 pages)

Notes - Includes Index

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In these essays on post-2000 films on Africa, anthropologists and historians critically examine the contemporary place that Africa holds in the North American and European cinematic imagination. One of the questions is whether these eight films have been able to move away from the sub-Conradian cliché of Africa as a canvas against which European heroism is enacted. The relation to other contemporary forms or sources of 'Western' knowledge about Africa such as news media, documentary, academic commentary and fiction literature is also dealt with. The introductory chapter (Nigel Eltringham) is followed by seven essays: 1. 'Print the legend': Myth and reality in 'The last king of Scotland' (Mark Leopold); 2. 'Black hawk down': Recasting U.S. military history at Somali expense (Lidwien Kapteijns); 3. Pharma in Africa: Health, corruption and contemporary Kenya in 'The constant gardener' (Daniel Branch); 4. War in the city, crime in the country: 'Blood Diamond' and the representation of violence in the Sierra Leone war (Danny Hoffman); 5. Showing what cannot be imagined: 'Shooting dogs' and 'Hotel Rwanda' (Nigel Eltringham); 6. Torture, betrayal and forgiveness: 'Red dust' and the search for truth in post-apartheid South Africa (Annelies Verdoolaege); and 7. Go Amabokoboko! Rugby, race, Madiba and the 'Invictus' creation myth of a new South Africa (Derek Charles Catsam).

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