Black and White in Colour African History on Screen

Name: Black and White in Colour African History on Screen
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ISBN: 9780821417478

ISBN-10: 0821417479

ISBN-13: 9780821417478

Edition: 2007

Authors: Vivian Bickford-Smith, Richard Mendelsohn

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Black and White in Colour: African History on Screenconsiders how the African past has been represented in a wide range of historical films. Written by a team of eminent international scholars, the volume provides extensive coverage of both place and time and deals with major issues in the written history of Africa. Themes include the slave trade, imperialism and colonialism, racism, and anticolonial resistance. Many of the films will be familiar to readers: they includeOut of Africa,Hotel Rwanda,Breaker Morant,Cry Freedom,The Battle of Algiers, andChocolat. This collection of essays is a highly original and useful contribution to African histography, as well as a significant addition to…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



List of Contributors


Introduction




History as cultural redemption in Gaston Kabore's precolonial-era films




Beyond 'history': two films of the deep Mande past




Tradition and resistance in Ousmane Sembene's films Emitai and Ceddo




The transatlantic slave trade in cinema




'What are we?': Proteus and the problematising of history




The public lives of historical films: the case of Zulu and Zulu Dawn




Breaker Morant: an African war through an Australian lens




From Khartoum to Kufrah: filmic narratives of conquest and resistance




Cheap if not always cheerful: French West Africa in the world wars in Black and White in Colour and Le Camp de Thiaroye




Whites in Africa: Kenya's colonists in the films Out of Africa, Nowhere in Africa and White Mischief




Beholding the colonial past in Claire Denis's Chocolat




The Battle of Algiers: between fiction, memory and history




Raoul Peck's Lumumba: history or hagiography?




Flame and the historiography of armed struggle in Zimbabwe




Picturing apartheid: with a particular focus 'Hollywood' histories of the 1970s




Hotel Rwanda: too much heroism, too little history - or horror?




Looking the beast in the (fictional) eye: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission on film



Endnotes


Index