Black and white in colour African history on screen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford James Currey 2007Description: IX, 374 pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0-8214-1747-9
  • 1-77013-057-8
  • 1-84701-522-0
  • 978-0-8214-1747-8
  • 978-1-84701-522-8
Subject(s):
Contents:
History as cultural redemption in Gaston Kabore's precolonial-era films / Mahir Saul -- Beyond "history" : two films of the deep Mande past / Ralph A. Austen -- Tradition and resistance in Ousmane Sembene's films Emitai and Ceddo / Robert Baum -- The transatlantic slave trade in cinema / Robert Harms -- "What are we?" : Proteus and the problematising of history / Nigel Worden -- The public lives of historical films : the case of Zulu and Zulu dawn / Carolyn Hamilton and Litheko Modisane -- Breaker Morant : an African war through an Australian lens / Richard Mendelsohn -- From Khartoum to Kufrah : filmic narratives of conquest and resistance / Shamil Jeppie -- Cheap if not always cheerful : French West Africa in the world wars in Black and white in colour and Le camp de Thiaroye / Bill Nasson -- Whites in Africa : Kenya's colonists in the films Out of Africa, Nowhere in Africa and White mischief / Nigel Penn -- Beholding the colonial past in Claire Denis's Chocolat / Ruth Watson -- The battle of Algiers : between fiction, memory and history / Patrick Harries -- Raoul Peck's Lumumba : history or hagiography? / David Moore -- Flame and the historiography of armed struggle in Zimbabwe / Teresa Barnes -- Picturing apartheid : with a particular focus on "Hollywood" histories of the 1970s / Vivian Bickford-Smith -- Hotel Rwanda : too much heroism, too little history, or horror? / Mohamed Adhikari -- Looking the beast in the (fictional) eye : the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on film / David Philips.
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book Library of Ethnosociology & Ethnohistory 117.567 ASE Available 3244032-10

History as cultural redemption in Gaston Kabore's precolonial-era films / Mahir Saul -- Beyond "history" : two films of the deep Mande past / Ralph A. Austen -- Tradition and resistance in Ousmane Sembene's films Emitai and Ceddo / Robert Baum -- The transatlantic slave trade in cinema / Robert Harms -- "What are we?" : Proteus and the problematising of history / Nigel Worden -- The public lives of historical films : the case of Zulu and Zulu dawn / Carolyn Hamilton and Litheko Modisane -- Breaker Morant : an African war through an Australian lens / Richard Mendelsohn -- From Khartoum to Kufrah : filmic narratives of conquest and resistance / Shamil Jeppie -- Cheap if not always cheerful : French West Africa in the world wars in Black and white in colour and Le camp de Thiaroye / Bill Nasson -- Whites in Africa : Kenya's colonists in the films Out of Africa, Nowhere in Africa and White mischief / Nigel Penn -- Beholding the colonial past in Claire Denis's Chocolat / Ruth Watson -- The battle of Algiers : between fiction, memory and history / Patrick Harries -- Raoul Peck's Lumumba : history or hagiography? / David Moore -- Flame and the historiography of armed struggle in Zimbabwe / Teresa Barnes -- Picturing apartheid : with a particular focus on "Hollywood" histories of the 1970s / Vivian Bickford-Smith -- Hotel Rwanda : too much heroism, too little history, or horror? / Mohamed Adhikari -- Looking the beast in the (fictional) eye : the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on film / David Philips.