Framing Africa

Framing Africa portrayals of a continent in contemporary mainstream cinema / [electronic resource] : edited by Nigel Eltringham. - New York : Berghahn, 2013. - vi, 183 p.

Includes filmography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Cinema/chimera? the re-presencing of Africa in twenty-first-century film / Nigel Eltringham -- "Print the legend": myth and reality in The last King of Scotland / Mark Leopold -- Black Hawk down: recasting U.S. military history at Somali expense / Lidwien Kapteijns -- Pharma in Africa: health, corruption and contemporary Kenya in The constant gardener / Daniel Branch -- War in the city, crime in the country: Blood diamond and the representation of violence in the Sierra Leone War / Danny Hoffman -- Showing what cannot be imagined: Shooting dogs and Hotel Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham -- Torture, betrayal and forgiveness: Red dust and the search for truth in post-apartheid South Africa / Annelies Verdoolaege -- Go Amabokoboko! rugby, race, madiba and the Invictus creation myth of a new South Africa / Derek Charles Catsam.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Motion pictures--History--Europe--21st century.
Motion pictures--History--United States--21st century.


Africa--In motion pictures.


Electronic books.

PN1995.9.A43 / F73 2013

791.43/651