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The Resource African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen, Lindiwe Dovey

African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen, Lindiwe Dovey

Label
African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen
Title
African film and literature
Title remainder
adapting violence to the screen
Statement of responsibility
Lindiwe Dovey
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Member of
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Dovey, Lindiwe
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • bibliography
  • filmographies
Series statement
Film and culture
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Motion pictures
  • Violence in motion pictures
  • Africa
Label
African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen, Lindiwe Dovey
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-324) and index
  • Includes filmography: p. [289]-298
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Cinema 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 Gaï Ramaka's Karmen geï (2001) -- Humanizing the Old Testament's origins, historicizing genocide's origins : Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La genèse (1999)
Control code
258333558
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xviii, 334 pages
Isbn
9780231147552
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2008042411
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
Label
African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen, Lindiwe Dovey
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-324) and index
  • Includes filmography: p. [289]-298
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Cinema 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 Gaï Ramaka's Karmen geï (2001) -- Humanizing the Old Testament's origins, historicizing genocide's origins : Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La genèse (1999)
Control code
258333558
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xviii, 334 pages
Isbn
9780231147552
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2008042411
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations

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