| Description |
1 online resource (x, 314 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in the cinema of the black diaspora |
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Studies in the cinema of the Black diaspora.
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| Contents |
Filmmaking on the African continent: on the centrality of human rights thinking / Mette Hjort and Eva Jørholt -- Perspectives. Human rights, Africa, and film: a cautionary tale / Mark Gibney -- African cinema: perspective correction / Rod Stoneman -- Africa's gift to the world: an interview with Gaston Kaboré / Rod Stoneman -- Toward new African languages of protest: African documentary films and human rights / Alessandro Jedlowski -- Challenging perspectives: an interview with Jean-Marie Teno / Melissa Thackway -- In defense of human rights filmmaking: a response to the skeptics, based on Kenyan examples / Mette Hjort -- The Zanzibar International Film Festival and its children panorama: using films to socialize human rights into the educational sector and a wider public sphere / Martin Mhando -- Cases. Ousmane Sembène's Moolaadé: peoples' rights vs human rights / Samba Gadjigo -- Haile Gerima's Harvest: 3000 years in the context of an evolving language of human rights / Ashish Rajadhyaksha -- Abducted twice? Difret (2015) and Schoolgirl killer (1999) / Tim Bergfelder -- Timbuktu and "l'homme de haine" / Kenneth Harrow -- Beats of the Antonov: a counter-narrative of endurance and survival / N. Frank Ukadike -- Human rights issues in the Nigerian films October 1 and Black November / Osakue Stevenson Omoera -- The anti-ecstasy of human rights: a foray into queer cinema on "homophobic Africa" / John Erni -- Refugees from globalization: "clandestine" African migration to Europe in a human (rights) perspective / Eva Jørholt |
| Summary |
African Cinema and Human Rights is an interdisciplinary look at the role of moving images in human rights struggles through the lens of African cinema |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 15, 2019) |
| Subject |
Human rights in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- Africa -- History and criticism
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Documentary films -- Africa -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Documentary films
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Human rights in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- In motion pictures.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001716
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| Subject |
Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hjort, Mette, editor.
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Jørholt, Eva, 1957- editor.
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| LC no. |
2018055027 |
| ISBN |
9780253039460 |
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0253039460 |
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9780253039446 |
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0253039444 |
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