Framing Africa
Subtitle: portrayals of a continent in contemporary mainstream cinema
By: edited by Nigel Eltringham
Publisher: Berghahn
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9781782380733; 9781782380740
Subjects: In motion pictures; Motion pictures; History
Notes: Includes filmography.

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