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| ISBN: | 9780231519380
0231519389
9780231147545
0231147546
9780231147552
0231147554
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file PDF
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-324) and index.
Includes filmography: pages 289-298.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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In English.
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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."--Book cover.
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| Other form: | Print version: Dovey, Lindiwe. African film and literature. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009
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| Standard no.: | 10.7312/dove14754
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