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BL
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625623
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Dovey, Lindiwe
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| Title & Author
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African film and literature : : adapting violence to the screen /\ Lindiwe Dovey
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, c2009
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| Series Statement
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Film and culture
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| Page. NO
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xviii, 334 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780231147545 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0231147546 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780231147552 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0231147554 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780231519380 (ebook)
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: 0231519389 (ebook)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-324) and index
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Includes filmography: p. [289]-298
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| Contents
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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 Gaï Ramaka's Karmen geï (2001) -- Humanizing the Old Testament's origins, historicizing genocide's origins : Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La genèse (1999)
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| Subject
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Motion pictures-- Africa
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Violence in motion pictures
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Africa, In motion pictures
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| Dewey Classification
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791.43096
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808.823
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| LC Classification
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PN1993.5.A35D68 2009
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