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The Resource Hollywood's Africa after 1994, edited by MaryEllen Higgins

Hollywood's Africa after 1994, edited by MaryEllen Higgins

Label
Hollywood's Africa after 1994
Title
Hollywood's Africa after 1994
Statement of responsibility
edited by MaryEllen Higgins
Contributor
Subject
Language
eng
Cataloging source
DLC
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1967-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Higgins, MaryEllen
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Human rights in motion pictures
  • Imperialism in motion pictures
  • Culture conflict in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures
  • Africa
Label
Hollywood's Africa after 1994, edited by MaryEllen Higgins
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: 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 méme 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
Control code
793221841
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
vi, 274 pages
Isbn
9780821420157
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2012032543
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Label
Hollywood's Africa after 1994, edited by MaryEllen Higgins
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: 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 méme 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
Control code
793221841
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
vi, 274 pages
Isbn
9780821420157
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2012032543
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n

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