Describes how the first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on African politics and society Explains how this new wave of films portrays a continent blighted by transnational corruption, genocide, ‘failed states’, illicit transnational commerce and the unfulfilled promises of decolonization Describes how once Apartheid South Africa was a brutal foil for the romance of East Africa it now serves as a redeemed contrast to the rest of the continent Anthropologists and historians reflect on these films and assess the contemporary place…mehr
Describes how the first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on African politics and society Explains how this new wave of films portrays a continent blighted by transnational corruption, genocide, ‘failed states’, illicit transnational commerce and the unfulfilled promises of decolonization Describes how once Apartheid South Africa was a brutal foil for the romance of East Africa it now serves as a redeemed contrast to the rest of the continent Anthropologists and historians reflect on these films and assess the contemporary place Africa holds in the North American and European cinematic imagination.
Nigel Eltringham is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex. He has published extensively on the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, conducting research in Rwanda, among the Rwandan diaspora in Europe and at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Arusha Tanzania).
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Introduction: Cinema/Chimera?: The Re-presencing of Africa in 21st Century Film Nigel Eltringham Chapter 1. 'Print the Legend': Myth and Reality in The Last King of Scotland Mark Leopold Chapter 2. Black Hawk Down: Recasting U.S. Military History at Somali Expense Lidwien Kapteijns Chapter 3. Pharma in Africa: Health, Corruption and Contemporary Kenya in The Constant Gardener Daniel Branch Chapter 4. War in the City, Crime in the Country: Blood Diamond and the Representation of Violence in the Sierra Leone War Danny Hoffman Chapter 5. Showing What Cannot Be Imagined: Shooting Dogs and Hotel Rwanda Nigel Eltringham Chapter 6. Torture, Betrayal and Forgiveness: Red Dust and the Search for Truth in Post-apartheid South Africa Annelies Verdoolaege Chapter 7. Go Amabokoboko!: Rugby, Race, Madiba and the Invictus Creation Myth of a New South Africa Derek Charles Catsam Author Biographies
Introduction: Cinema/Chimera?: The Re-presencing of Africa in 21st Century Film Nigel Eltringham Chapter 1. 'Print the Legend': Myth and Reality in The Last King of Scotland Mark Leopold Chapter 2. Black Hawk Down: Recasting U.S. Military History at Somali Expense Lidwien Kapteijns Chapter 3. Pharma in Africa: Health, Corruption and Contemporary Kenya in The Constant Gardener Daniel Branch Chapter 4. War in the City, Crime in the Country: Blood Diamond and the Representation of Violence in the Sierra Leone War Danny Hoffman Chapter 5. Showing What Cannot Be Imagined: Shooting Dogs and Hotel Rwanda Nigel Eltringham Chapter 6. Torture, Betrayal and Forgiveness: Red Dust and the Search for Truth in Post-apartheid South Africa Annelies Verdoolaege Chapter 7. Go Amabokoboko!: Rugby, Race, Madiba and the Invictus Creation Myth of a New South Africa Derek Charles Catsam Author Biographies
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