Black and White in Colour : Africa's History on Screen
by Bickford-Smith, VivianFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-03-13
Publisher(s): Ohio Univ Pr
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Summary
Black and White in Colour: African History on Screenconsiders how the African past has been represented in a wide range of historical films. Written by a team of eminent international scholars, the volume provides extensive coverage of both place and time and deals with major issues in the written history of Africa. Themes include the slave trade, imperialism and colonialism, racism, and anticolonial resistance. Many of the films will be familiar to readers: they includeOut of Africa,Hotel Rwanda,Breaker Morant,Cry Freedom,The Battle of Algiers, andChocolat. This collection of essays is a highly original and useful contribution to African histography, as well as a significant addition to the growing body of work within the emerging subdiscipline of "film and history." It will appeal to those interested in African history and the ways in which films use the past to raise questions about the present.
Author Biography
Vivian Bickford-Smith is a professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town.
Richard Mendelsohn is the head of the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. He has published extensively on South African Jewish history, and together with Vivian Bickford-Smith, has pioneered teaching and research in film and history.
Richard Mendelsohn is the head of the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. He has published extensively on South African Jewish history, and together with Vivian Bickford-Smith, has pioneered teaching and research in film and history.
Table of Contents
| List of Contributors | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| History as cultural redemption in Gaston Kabore's precolonial-era films | p. 11 |
| Beyond 'history': two films of the deep Mande past | p. 28 |
| Tradition and resistance in Ousmane Sembene's films Emitai and Ceddo | p. 41 |
| The transatlantic slave trade in cinema | p. 59 |
| 'What are we?': Proteus and the problematising of history | p. 82 |
| The public lives of historical films: the case of Zulu and Zulu Dawn | p. 97 |
| Breaker Morant: an African war through an Australian lens | p. 120 |
| From Khartoum to Kufrah: filmic narratives of conquest and resistance | p. 136 |
| Cheap if not always cheerful: French West Africa in the world wars in Black and White in Colour and Le Camp de Thiaroye | p. 148 |
| Whites in Africa: Kenya's colonists in the films Out of Africa, Nowhere in Africa and White Mischief | p. 167 |
| Beholding the colonial past in Claire Denis's Chocolat | p. 185 |
| The Battle of Algiers: between fiction, memory and history | p. 203 |
| Raoul Peck's Lumumba: history or hagiography? | p. 223 |
| Flame and the historiography of armed struggle in Zimbabwe | p. 240 |
| Picturing apartheid: with a particular focus 'Hollywood' histories of the 1970s | p. 256 |
| Hotel Rwanda: too much heroism, too little history - or horror? | p. 279 |
| Looking the beast in the (fictional) eye: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission on film | p. 300 |
| Endnotes | p. 323 |
| Index | p. 372 |
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