Framing Africa : portrayals of a continent in contemporary mainstream cinema /
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| Imprint: | New York : Berghahn Books, 2013. |
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| Description: | 183 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Berghahn on film |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9279509 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Cinema/chimera? the re-presencing of Africa in twenty-first-century film / Nigel Eltringham
- "Print the legend": myth and reality in The last King of Scotland / Mark Leopold
- Black Hawk down: recasting U.S. military history at Somali expense / Lidwien Kapteijns
- Pharma in Africa: health, corruption and contemporary Kenya in The constant gardener / Daniel Branch
- War in the city, crime in the country: Blood diamond and the representation of violence in the Sierra Leone War / Danny Hoffman
- Showing what cannot be imagined: Shooting dogs and Hotel Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham
- Torture, betrayal and forgiveness: Red dust and the search for truth in post-apartheid South Africa / Annelies Verdoolaege
- Go Amabokoboko! rugby, race, madiba and the Invictus creation myth of a new South Africa / Derek Charles Catsam.
