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100 1 Dokotum, Okaka Opio,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names
/no2004070646|eauthor.
245 10 Hollywood and Africa :|brecycling the "dark continent"
myth, 1908-2020 /|cOkaka Opio Dokotum.
250 First edition.
264 1 Makhanda, South Africa :|bNISC (Pty) Ltd,|c2020.
264 4 |c©2020
300 1 online resource.
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490 1 African humanities series
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 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
505 8 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
505 8 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
505 8 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
505 8 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
588 0 Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on
April 14, 2020).
590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic
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651 0 Africa|xIn motion pictures.|0https://id.loc.gov/
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aDokotum, Opio.|tHollywood and Africa :
Recycling the 'Dark Continent' Myth From 1908-2020.
|dOxford : NISC (Pty) Limited (National Inquiry Services
Centre (Pty) Ltd), ©2020
830 0 African humanities series.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities
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