African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen /
Analyzing 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 psychol...
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| Language: | English |
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©2009
New York : [2009] New York, NY : [2009] |
| Series: | Film and culture
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| Summary: | Analyzing 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 "Analyzing 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."--Book cover |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (356 pages) : illustrations 1 online resource (550 p.) 1 online resource (xviii, 334 pages) : illustrations 1 online resource : 174 color images, and 4 more for the cover Issued also in print |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-324) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-324) and index Includes filmography: pages 289-298 Includes filmography: pages [289]-298 |
| ISBN: | 0-231-51938-9 0231519389 9780231519380 (e-book) 9780231519380 |
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