Black and white in colour
Subtitle: African history on screen
By: edited by Vivian Bickford-Smith and Richard Mendelsohn.
Contributors: Bickford-Smith, Vivian.; Mendelsohn, Richard.
Publisher: James Currey; Ohio University Press; Double Storey
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; Athens; Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781847015228; 9780821417478; 9781770130579
Subjects: Africa -- In motion pictures
Other titles: Black + white in colour.
Notes: Includes bibiliographical references (p. 323-371) and index.
Table of contents: title: History as cultural redemption in Gaston Kabore's precolonial-era films / Mahir Saul; title: Beyond "history" : two films of the deep Mande past / Ralph A. Austen; title: Tradition and resistance in Ousmane Sembene's films Emitai and Ceddo / Robert Baum; title: The transatlantic slave trade in cinema / Robert Harms; title: "What are we?" : Proteus and the problematising of history / Nigel Worden; title: The public lives of historical films : the case of Zulu and Zulu dawn / Carolyn Hamilton and Litheko Modisane; title: Breaker Morant : an African war through an Australian lens / Richard Mendelsohn; title: From Khartoum to Kufrah : filmic narratives of conquest and resistance / Shamil Jeppie; title: 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; title: Whites in Africa : Kenya's colonists in the films Out of Africa, Nowhere in Africa and White mischief / Nigel Penn; title: Beholding the colonial past in Claire Denis's Chocolat / Ruth Watson; title: The battle of Algiers : between fiction, memory and history / Patrick Harries; title: Raoul Peck's Lumumba : history or hagiography? / David Moore; title: Flame and the historiography of armed struggle in Zimbabwe / Teresa Barnes; title: Picturing apartheid : with a particular focus on "Hollywood" histories of the 1970s / Vivian Bickford-Smith; title: Hotel Rwanda : too much heroism, too little history, or horror? / Mohamed Adhikari; title: Looking the beast in the (fictional) eye : the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on film / David Philips.