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Hollywood’s Africa after 1994
Ohio University Press, 2012 eISBN: 978-0-8214-4433-7 | Paper: 978-0-8214-2015-7 Library of Congress Classification PN1995.9.A43H65 2012 Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43651
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Hollywood’s Africa after 1994 investigates Hollywood’s colonial film legacy in the postapartheid era, and contemplates what has changed in the West’s representations of Africa. How do we read twenty-first-century projections of human rights issues—child soldiers, genocide, the exploitation of the poor by multinational corporations, dictatorial rule, truth and reconciliation—within the contexts of celebrity humanitarianism, “new” military humanitarianism, and Western support for regime change in Africa and beyond? A number of films after 1994, such as Black Hawk Down, Hotel Rwanda, Blood Diamond, The Last King of Scotland, The Constant Gardener, Shake Hands with the Devil, Tears of the Sun, and District 9, construct explicit and implicit arguments about the effects of Western intervention in Africa. Do the emphases on human rights in the films offer a poignant expression of our shared humanity? Do they echo the colonial tropes of former “civilizing missions?” Or do human rights violations operate as yet another mine of sensational images for Hollywood’s spectacular storytelling? See other books on: Human rights in motion pictures | Imperialism in motion pictures | In motion pictures | Media Studies | Motion pictures See other titles from Ohio University Press |
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