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Hollywood's Africa after 1994

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Hollywood's Africa after 1994

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Hollywood's Africa after 1994edited by MaryEllen Higgins.
other author:	Higgins, MaryEllen,
Published:	Athens :Ohio University Press,2012.
Description:	1 online resource (288 p.).
Subject:	Motion picturesHistory21st century.United States
Subject:	AfricaExhibitions.Antiquities
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9780821444337 (electronic bk.)

Hollywood's Africa after 1994
Hollywood's Africa after 1994[electronic resource] /edited by MaryEllen Higgins. - Athens :Ohio University Press,2012. - 1 online resource (288 p.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: African blood, Hollywood's diamonds? Hollywood's Africa after 1994 / MaryEllen Higgins -- The cited and the uncited: toward an emancipatory reading of representations of Africa / Harry Garuba and Natasha Himmelman -- The troubled terrain of human rights films: Blood diamond, Thelast king of Scotland, and, The devil came on horseback / Margaret R. Higonnet, with Ethel R. Higonnet -- Hollywood's representations of human rights: the case of Terry George's Hotel Rwanda / JoyceB. Ashuntantang -- Hollywood's cowboy humanitarianism in Black Hawk down and Tears of the sun / MaryEllen Higgins -- Again, the darkness: Shake hands with the devil / Kenneth W. Harrow -- Ambiguitiesand paradoxes: framing northern intervention in The constant gardener / Christopher Odhiambo Joseph-- Minstrelsy and mythic appetites: The last king of Scotland's heart of darkness in the Jubilee Year of African independence/ Ricardo Guthrie -- "An image of Africa": representations of modern colonialism in Africa in Peter Jackson's King Kong / Clifford T. Manlove-- Plus 'a change, plus c'est lameme chose: Hollywood's constructionsof Africa in Lord of war / Earl Conteh-Morgan -- New Jack African cinema: Dangerous ground; Cry, the beloved country; and Blood diamond / Bennetta Jules-Rosette, J.R. Osborn, and Lea Marie Ruiz-Ade -- "It is a very rough game, almost as rough as politics": rugbyas visual metaphor and the future of the new South Africa in Invictus / Christopher Garland-- "Every brother ain't a brother": cultural dissonance and Nigerian malaise in District 9's new South Africa / Kimberly Nichele Brown -- Coaxing the beast out of the cage: secrecy and disclosure in Red dust and Catch a fire / Jane Bryce -- Situating agency in Blood diamond and Ezra / Iyunolu Osagie -- Bye bye Hollywood: African cinema and its double in Mahamet-Saleh Haroun's Bye bye Africa / Dayna Oscherwitz.

ISBN: 9780821444337 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

461595
Motion pictures
--History--United States--21st century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

390751
Africa
--Antiquities--Exhibitions.

LC Class. No.: PN1995.9.A43 / H65 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 791.43/651

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