Black and white in colour : African history on screen /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bickford-Smith, Vivian, Mendelsohn, Richard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Athens : Cape Town : James Currey ; Ohio University Press ; Double Storey, 2007.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • History as cultural redemption in Gaston Kabore's precolonial-era films / Mahir Saul
  • Beyond "history" : two films of the deep Mande past / Ralph A. Austen
  • Tradition and resistance in Ousmane Sembene's films Emitai and Ceddo / Robert Baum
  • The transatlantic slave trade in cinema / Robert Harms
  • "What are we?" : Proteus and the problematising of history / Nigel Worden
  • The public lives of historical films : the case of Zulu and Zulu dawn / Carolyn Hamilton and Litheko Modisane
  • Breaker Morant : an African war through an Australian lens / Richard Mendelsohn
  • From Khartoum to Kufrah : filmic narratives of conquest and resistance / Shamil Jeppie
  • Cheap if not always cheerful : French West Africa in the world wars in Black and white in colour and Le camp de Thiaroye / Bill Nasson
  • Whites in Africa : Kenya's colonists in the films Out of Africa, Nowhere in Africa and White mischief / Nigel Penn
  • Beholding the colonial past in Claire Denis's Chocolat / Ruth Watson
  • The battle of Algiers : between fiction, memory and history / Patrick Harries
  • Raoul Peck's Lumumba : history or hagiography? / David Moore
  • Flame and the historiography of armed struggle in Zimbabwe / Teresa Barnes
  • Picturing apartheid : with a particular focus on "Hollywood" histories of the 1970s / Vivian Bickford-Smith
  • Hotel Rwanda : too much heroism, too little history, or horror? / Mohamed Adhikari
  • Looking the beast in the (fictional) eye : the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on film / David Philips.