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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
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April, 2009
Cloth, 360 pages, 174 color images, and 4 more for the cover
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List of Film Stills
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: "African Cinema": Problems and Possibilities
1. Cinema and Violence in South Africa
2. Fools and Victims: Adapting Rationalized Rape into Feminist Film
3. 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 Night
5. Audio-visualizing "Invisible" Violence: Remaking and Reinventing Cry, the Beloved Country
6. Cinema and Violence in Francophone West Africa
7. Losing the Plot, Restoring the Lost Chapter: Aristotle in Cameroon
8. 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 GenŠse (1999)
Conclusion
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index