African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen

by Lindiwe Dovey

Book Overview

Analyzing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking-one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique of physical and psychological violence. Against a detailed history of the medium's savage introduction and exploitation by colonial powers in two very different African contexts,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231147554
• ISBN13: 9780231147552
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher