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Black and white in colour : African history on screen

Title: Black and white in colour : African history on screen / edited by Vivian Bickford-Smith and Richard Mendelsohn.
Publication: Oxford : James Currey ; Athens : Ohio University Press ; Cape Town : Double Storey, 2007.

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Description

ix, 374 pages; 24 cm

Summary

'Black and White in colour' considers how the African past has been represented in a wide range of historical films. It provides extensive coverage of both place and time and deals with issues that have been prominent in the written history of Africa.

Alternative Title

Black + white in colour

Subject

Genre/Form

History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-371) and index.

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.

Call Number

Sc E 22-1577

ISBN

9780821417478
0821417479
9781847015228
1847015220
9781770130579
1770130578

LCCN

2007296520

OCLC

72868858

Title

Black and white in colour : African history on screen / edited by Vivian Bickford-Smith and Richard Mendelsohn.

Imprint

Oxford : James Currey ; Athens : Ohio University Press ; Cape Town : Double Storey, 2007.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-371) and index.

Local Note

CO-PUB W/ JAMES CURREY & DOUBLE STOREY. COLLECTION OF NEW ESSAYS.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Bickford-Smith, Vivian, editor.

Mendelsohn, Richard, 1949- editor.

Cover Title

Black + white in colour

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-1577

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