African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen /

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Author / Creator:	Dovey, Lindiwe.
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.
Description:	xviii, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Film and culture
Subject:	Motion pictures -- Africa. Violence in motion pictures. Motion pictures. Violence in motion pictures. Africa -- In motion pictures. Africa.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7712191

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ISBN:	9780231147545 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231147546 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231147552 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0231147554 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780231519380 (ebook) 0231519389 (ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-324) and index. Includes filmography: p. [289]-298.

Table of Contents:

List of Film Stills
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: ""African Cinema"": Problems and Possibilities
1. Cinema and Violence in South Africa
2. Fools and Victims: Adapting Rationalized Rape into Feminist Film
3. Redeeming Features: Screening HIV/AIDS, Screening Out Rape in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi
4. From Black and White to ""Coloured"": Racial Identity in 1950s and 1990s South Africa in Two Versions of A Walk in the Night
5. Audio-visualizing ""Invisible"" Violence: Remaking and Reinventing Cry, the

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