Hollywood's Africa After 1994

Name: Hollywood's Africa After 1994
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ISBN: 9780821420157

ISBN-10: 0821420151

ISBN-13: 9780821420157

Edition: 2012

Authors: MaryEllen Higgins

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Hollywood’s Africa after 1994investigates Hollywood’s colonial film legacy in the postapartheid era, and contemplates what has changed in the West’s representations of Africa. How do we read twenty-first-century projections of human rights issues—child soldiers, genocide, the exploitation of the poor by multinational corporations, dictatorial rule, truth and reconciliation—within the contexts of celebrity humanitarianism, “new” military humanitarianism, and Western support for regime change in Africa and beyond? A number of films after 1994, such asBlack Hawk Down, Hotel Rwanda, Blood Diamond, The Last King of Scotland, The Constant Gardener, Shake Hands with the Devil, Tears of the Sun,…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Introduction: African Blood, Hollywood's Diamonds? Hollywood's Africa after 1994




The Cited and the Uncited: Toward an Emancipatory Reading of Representations of Africa




The Troubled Terrain of Human Rights Films: Blood Diamond, The Last King of Scotland, and The Devil Came on Horseback




Hollywood's Representations of Human Rights: The Case of Terry George's Hotel Rwanda




Hollywood's Cowboy Humanitarianism in Black Hawk Down and Tears of the Sun




Again, the Darkness: Shake Hands with the Devil




Ambiguities and Paradoxes: Framing Northern Intervention in The Constant Gardener




Minstrelsy and Mythic Appetites: The Last King of Scotland's Heart of Darkness in the Jubilee Year of African Independence




ï¿½An Image of Africa": Representations of Modern Colonialism in Africa in Peter Jackson s King Kong




Plus ï¿½a Change, Plus C'est la Mï¿½me Chose: Hollywood's Constructions of Africa in Lord of War




New Jack African Cinema: Dangerous Ground; Cry, the Beloved Country; and Blood Diamond




"It Is a Very Rough Game, Almost as Rough as Politics": Rugby as Visual Metaphor and the Future of the New South Africa in Invictus




"Every Brother Ain't a Brother": Cultural Dissonance and Nigerian Malaise in District g's New South Africa




Coaxing the Beast Out of the Cage: Secrecy and Disclosure in Red Dust and Catch a Fire




Situating Agency in Blood Diamond and Ezra




Bye Bye Hollywood: African Cinema and Its Double in Mahamet-Saleh Haroun's Bye Bye Africa



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