Framing Africa : portrayals of a continent in contemporary mainstream cinema
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Framing Africa : portrayals of a continent in contemporary mainstream cinema
(Berghahn on film)
Berghahn, 2013
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Includes filmography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction. Cinema/chimera? the re-presencing of Africa in twenty-first-century film / Nigel Eltringham
- 1. "Print the legend": myth and reality in The last King of Scotland / Mark Leopold
- 2. Black Hawk down : recasting U.S. military history at Somali expense / Lidwien Kapteijns
- 3. Pharma in Africa : health, corruption and contemporary Kenya in The constant gardener / Daniel Branch
- 4. War in the city, crime in the country : Blood diamond and the representation of violence in the Sierra Leone War / Danny Hoffman
- 5. Showing what cannot be imagined : Shooting dogs and Hotel Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham
- 6. Torture, betrayal and forgiveness : Red dust and the search for truth in post-apartheid South Africa / Annelies Verdoolaege
- 7. Go Amabokoboko! rugby, race, madiba and the Invictus creation myth of a new South Africa / Derek Charles Catsam

