LEADER 03805nam 2200673 450 001 9910462474903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-51938-9 024 7 $a10.7312/dove14754 035 $a(CKB)2670000000336230 035 $a(EBL)908651 035 $a(OCoLC)828795467 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908651 035 $a(DE-B1597)458814 035 $a(OCoLC)1013950087 035 $a(OCoLC)1029835722 035 $a(OCoLC)1032680211 035 $a(OCoLC)1037976395 035 $a(OCoLC)1042029068 035 $a(OCoLC)1043677615 035 $a(OCoLC)979626411 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231519380 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908651 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10956734 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL853772 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000336230 100 $a20080925h20092009 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aAfrican film and literature $eadapting violence to the screen /$fLindiwe Dovey 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d[2009] 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (550 p.) 225 1 $aFilm and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-14755-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [299]-324) and index. 320 $aIncludes filmography: pages [289]-298. 327 $aCinema and violence in South Africa -- Fools and victims : adapting rationalized rape into feminist film -- Redeeming features : screening HIV/AIDS, screening out rape in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi -- From black and white to "coloured" : racial identity in 1950s and 1990s South Africa in two versions of A walk in the night -- Audio-visualizing "invisible" violence : remaking and reinventing Cry, the beloved country -- Cinema and violence in francophone West Africa -- Losing the plot, restoring the lost chapter : Aristotle in Cameroon -- African incar(me)nation : Joseph Gai? Ramaka's Karmen gei? (2001) -- Humanizing the Old Testament's origins, historicizing genocide's origins : Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La gene?se (1999). 330 $aAnalyzing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking-one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique of physical and psychological violence. Against a detailed history of the medium's savage introduction and exploitation by colonial powers in two very different African contexts, Dovey examines the complex ways in which African filmmakers are preserving, mediating, and critiquing their own cultures while seeking a united vision of the future. More than merely representing socio-cultural realities in Africa, these films engage with issues of colonialism and postcolonialism, "updating" both the history and the literature they adapt to address contemporary audiences in Africa and elsewhere. Through this deliberate and radical re-historicization of texts and realities, Dovey argues that African filmmakers have developed a method of filmmaking that is altogether distinct from European and American forms of adaptation. 410 0$aFilm and culture. 606 $aMotion pictures$zAfrica 606 $aViolence in motion pictures 607 $aAfrica$xIn motion pictures 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMotion pictures 615 0$aViolence in motion pictures. 676 $a791.43096 700 $aDovey$b Lindiwe$01036414 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462474903321 996 $aAfrican film and literature$92456759 997 $aUNINA