LEADER 04387nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910786353703321 005 20230801225241.0 010 $a0-8214-4433-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276473 035 $a(EBL)1743643 035 $a(OCoLC)819136153 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000755945 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11966212 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755945 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10749019 035 $a(PQKB)10322454 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1743643 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18626 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1743643 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10622493 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276473 100 $a20120815d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aHollywood's Africa after 1994$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by MaryEllen Higgins 210 $aAthens $cOhio University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8214-2015-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: African blood, Hollywood's diamonds? Hollywood's Africa after 1994 / MaryEllen Higgins -- The cited and the uncited: toward an emancipatory reading of representations of Africa / Harry Garuba and Natasha Himmelman -- The troubled terrain of human rights films: Blood diamond, The last king of Scotland, and, The devil came on horseback / Margaret R. Higonnet, with Ethel R. Higonnet -- Hollywood's representations of human rights: the case of Terry George's Hotel Rwanda / Joyce B. Ashuntantang -- Hollywood's cowboy humanitarianism in Black Hawk down and Tears of the sun / MaryEllen Higgins -- Again, the darkness: Shake hands with the devil / Kenneth W. Harrow -- Ambiguities and paradoxes: framing northern intervention in The constant gardener / Christopher Odhiambo Joseph -- Minstrelsy and mythic appetites: The last king of Scotland's heart of darkness in the Jubilee Year of African independence / Ricardo Guthrie -- "An image of Africa": representations of modern colonialism in Africa in Peter Jackson's King Kong / Clifford T. Manlove -- Plus 'a change, plus c'est la meme chose: Hollywood's constructions of Africa in Lord of war / Earl Conteh-Morgan -- New Jack African cinema: Dangerous ground; Cry, the beloved country; and Blood diamond / Bennetta Jules-Rosette, J.R. Osborn, and Lea Marie Ruiz-Ade -- "It is a very rough game, almost as rough as politics": rugby as visual metaphor and the future of the new South Africa in Invictus / Christopher Garland -- "Every brother ain't a brother": cultural dissonance and Nigerian malaise in District 9's new South Africa / Kimberly Nichele Brown -- Coaxing the beast out of the cage: secrecy and disclosure in Red dust and Catch a fire / Jane Bryce -- Situating agency in Blood diamond and Ezra / Iyunolu Osagie -- Bye bye Hollywood: African cinema and its double in Mahamet-Saleh Haroun's Bye bye Africa / Dayna Oscherwitz. 330 $aHollywood's Africa after 1994 investigates Hollywood's colonial film legacy in the post apartheid era, and contemplates what has changed in the West's representations of Africa. How do we read twenty-first-century projections of human rights issues-child soldiers, genocide, the exploitation of the poor by multinational corporations, dictatorial rule, truth and reconciliation-within the contexts of celebrity humanitarianism, "new" military humanitarianism, and Western support for regime change in Africa and beyond? A number of films after 1994, such as Black Hawk Down, Hotel Rwand 606 $aHuman rights in motion pictures 606 $aImperialism in motion pictures 606 $aCulture conflict in motion pictures 606 $aMotion pictures$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century 607 $aAfrica$xIn motion pictures 615 0$aHuman rights in motion pictures. 615 0$aImperialism in motion pictures. 615 0$aCulture conflict in motion pictures. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory 676 $a791.43/651 676 $a791.43651 701 $aHiggins$b MaryEllen$f1967-$01549186 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786353703321 996 $aHollywood's Africa after 1994$93843334 997 $aUNINA