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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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- Additional Authors
- 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
- 1900-1999
- Motion pictures > Africa > History and criticism
- Motion picture industry > Africa > History > 20th century
- Africans in motion pictures > History
- Colonies in motion pictures > History
- Slavery in motion pictures > History
- Imperialism in motion pictures > History
- Decolonization > Africa > History
- Motion pictures
- Africans in motion pictures
- Colonies in motion pictures
- Slavery in motion pictures
- Imperialism in motion pictures
- Decolonization
- Colonization
- Motion picture industry
- Africa > In motion pictures > History
- Africa > Colonization > History
- Africa
- 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