Framing Africa portrayals of a continent in contemporary mainstream cinema /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Eltringham, Nigel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Cinema/chimera? the re-presencing of Africa in twenty-first-century film / Nigel Eltringham
  • "Print the legend": myth and reality in The last King of Scotland / Mark Leopold
  • Black Hawk down: recasting U.S. military history at Somali expense / Lidwien Kapteijns
  • Pharma in Africa: health, corruption and contemporary Kenya in The constant gardener / Daniel Branch
  • War in the city, crime in the country: Blood diamond and the representation of violence in the Sierra Leone War / Danny Hoffman
  • Showing what cannot be imagined: Shooting dogs and Hotel Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham
  • Torture, betrayal and forgiveness: Red dust and the search for truth in post-apartheid South Africa / Annelies Verdoolaege
  • Go Amabokoboko! rugby, race, madiba and the Invictus creation myth of a new South Africa / Derek Charles Catsam.