Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-324) and index.
Includes filmography: pages [289]-298.
Contents
Cinema and violence in South Africa -- Fools and victims : adapting rationalized rape into feminist film -- Redeeming features : screening HIV/AIDS, screening out rape in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi -- From black and white to "coloured" : racial identity in 1950s and 1990s South Africa in two versions of A walk in the night -- Audio-visualizing "invisible" violence : remaking and reinventing Cry, the beloved country -- Cinema and violence in francophone West Africa -- Losing the plot, restoring the lost chapter : Aristotle in Cameroon -- African incar(me)nation : Joseph Gai Ramaka's Karmen gei (2001) -- Humanizing the Old Testament's origins, historicizing genocide's origins : Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La genese (1999).
