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Author Dokotum, Okaka Opio, author.

Title Hollywood and Africa : recycling the "dark continent" myth, 1908-2020 / Okaka Opio Dokotum.

Publication Info. Makhanda, South Africa : NISC (Pty) Ltd, 2020.
©2020

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series African humanities series
African humanities series.
Contents Cover -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreward -- Preface -- List of plates -- Introduction -- Scope -- Breakdown of chapters -- GENERAL OVERVIEW -- 1. Constructing the 'Dark Continent' -- Which Africa? Whose Africa? -- Africa in colonial novels -- 2. Manifestations of Hollywood's Africas -- The myth of 'whiteness' -- Dark Continent narrative methodology -- Classical Hollywood films about Africa -- Neoclassical Hollywood films about Africa -- New Wave Hollywood-Africa films -- ADAPTATION MODELS -- 3. Ventriloquising the Dark Continent myth
The film adaptation and colonial nostalgia -- Genre and narrative -- Style and ideology -- Jungle romance -- Mapping and conquest -- The iconography of racist representation -- It's a relay race -- Notes -- 4. Colonial nostalgia -- Where is Sierra Leone? -- TIA: This is Africa! -- Violence is a way of life in Africa -- Helpless Africans -- Diamonds are the problem -- Hollywood trademarks -- Racism -- Disposable darkies and the sacrosanct white body -- Archer as Christ figure -- Mercenary saviours: Colonialism redux -- A missed opportunity -- Notes -- 5. Militainment and historical distortion
Which Nigeria and whose Nigeria? -- Hollywood's idea of Africa -- Wiping the tears of Africa -- Genre dissonance -- Trivialising African history -- Demonising the Nigerian military -- Militainment and historical revisionism -- Do(ing) the right thing! -- 6. This is 'a true story!' -- Contesting memory re-construction in Hotel Rwanda -- Survivors speak out -- This is 'a true story', or is it? -- Hotel Rwanda and An Ordinary Man: The narrative interchange -- Contesting heroic mythography and celebrity discourse in Hotel Rwanda -- Hotel Rwanda and the search for justice, peace and reconciliation
Hollywood's Frankenstein -- 7. Ideological effacement and heroic self-transcendence -- The scramble for Mandela's biopics -- Invictus: The screen incarnation of Mandela -- Reading South African history through Mandela's life -- Invictus as spectacular history -- Mythography in Invictus -- What is 'rosebud?' -- NEW APPROACHES -- 8. Metatextuality and transnational film production -- The 'Dark Continent' revisited -- Colonial nostalgia -- Kevin Macdonald's adaptation: Mining for gold 'i but mitta' -- Cinematic trumping of novelistic content -- Location shooting -- Acting as critique
Music as metanarrative -- Will the real Amin please stand up? -- Notes -- 9. Cyberactivism against 'whitewashing' -- 10. Afro-optimism -- Based on a true story -- Defining Afro-optimism -- The uplifting story -- breaking the cycle of Afro pessimism -- Local production context -- Novel-film interchange -- Katwe as a character -- The Dark Continent still lingers -- Phiona rising! -- Notes -- 11. Afrofuturism -- Synopsis -- African setting -- All-black cast -- Black Panther movie and Black Panther Party -- Indictment of colonialism -- Not yet Uhuru! -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Bibliography
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Africa -- In motion pictures.
Africa.
Motion pictures -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Motion pictures.
California -- Los Angeles.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Dokotum, Opio. Hollywood and Africa : Recycling the 'Dark Continent' Myth From 1908-2020. Oxford : NISC (Pty) Limited (National Inquiry Services Centre (Pty) Ltd), ©2020
ISBN 192003367X (electronic book)
9781920033675 (electronic book)
9781920033668
1920033661