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African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen
Paper, 360 pages, 174 color images, and 4 more for the cover
ISBN: 978-0-231-14755-2
$32.50
/ £22.50
April, 2009
Cloth, 360 pages, 174 color images, and 4 more for the cover
ISBN: 978-0-231-14754-5
$89.50
/ £62.00
"This is a fine work of scholarship that sets a high standard for the discussion of African film. The book brings together-perhaps for the first time in a work of this magnitude—two centers of gravity in African film as it exists now: Francophone West Africa on the one hand and post-apartheid South Africa on the other. Dovey undertakes a thoughtful exploration of the question of adaptation from literature to film." — Christopher Miller, Yale University
"This book explores a specific and emergent genre of African filmmaking and the critique of violence found at its center. Lindiwe Dovey’s arguments are compelling, innovative, and substantiated." — James Genova, Ohio State University
"Once in a while a book is published that instigates a paradigm shift in how we view an object of study. Lindiwe Dovey's African Film and Literature is one of them. By paying attention to African films primarily as films in the process of more complex ethnographic, historical, and sociopolitical elaborations, Dovey delivers a gift to be celebrated. One thinks of the nuance of her observations in the same vein as those of C. L. R. James and his writings on American cinema." — Ato Quayson, University of Toronto, and author of Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation