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Author Dokotum, Okaka Opio, author.
Title Hollywood and Africa : recycling the "dark continent" myth, 1908-2020 / Okaka Opio Dokotum.
Alternative Title Recycling the 'dark continent myth,' 1908-2020
Publisher Makhanda, South Africa : NISC (Pty) Ltd, 2020.
Copyright date ©2020
Edition First edition.


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Descript 1 online resource (xxi, 310 pages) : illustrations
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Edition First edition.
Contents Cover -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreward (sic) -- 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 -- Index -- Back cover.
ISBN 192003367X (electronic book)
9781920033675 (electronic bk.)
9781920033668 (paperback)
1920033661 (paperback)
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Author Dokotum, Okaka Opio, author.
Series African humanities series
African humanities series.
Subject Motion pictures -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Africa -- In motion pictures.
Africa -- In mass media.
Africa -- In popular culture.
Alternative Title Recycling the 'dark continent myth,' 1908-2020
Descript 1 online resource (xxi, 310 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Edition First edition.
Contents Cover -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreward (sic) -- 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 -- Index -- Back cover.
ISBN 192003367X (electronic book)
9781920033675 (electronic bk.)
9781920033668 (paperback)
1920033661 (paperback)
Author Dokotum, Okaka Opio, author.
Series African humanities series
African humanities series.
Subject Motion pictures -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Africa -- In motion pictures.
Africa -- In mass media.
Africa -- In popular culture.
Alternative Title Recycling the 'dark continent myth,' 1908-2020

Subject Motion pictures -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Africa -- In motion pictures.
Africa -- In mass media.
Africa -- In popular culture.
Descript 1 online resource (xxi, 310 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Cover -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreward (sic) -- 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 -- Index -- Back cover.
ISBN 192003367X (electronic book)
9781920033675 (electronic bk.)
9781920033668 (paperback)
1920033661 (paperback)
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