MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01624nam a22003018a 4500
001 2008042411
003 DLC
005 20080925163714.0
008 080925s2009 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008042411
020 $a9780231147545 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780231147552 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a9780231519380 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $af------
050 00 $aPN1993.5.A35$bD68 2009
082 00 $a791.43096$222
100 1 $aDovey, Lindiwe.
245 10 $aAfrican film and literature :$badapting violence to the screen /$cLindiwe Dovey.
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$cc2009.
263 $a0904
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aFilm and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aCinema 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 -- Humanizing the Old Testament's origins, historicizing genocide's origins : Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La genèse.
650 0 $aMotion pictures$zAfrica.
651 0 $aAfrica$xIn motion pictures.
650 0 $aViolence in motion pictures.