Hollywood’s Africa after 1994 by Natasha Himmelman,MaryEllen Higgins

By Natasha Himmelman,MaryEllen Higgins

Hollywood’s Africa after 1994 investigates Hollywood’s colonial movie legacy within the postapartheid period, and contemplates what has replaced within the West’s representations of Africa. How can we learn twenty-first-century projections of human rights issues—child squaddies, genocide, the exploitation of the bad via multinational enterprises, dictatorial rule, fact and reconciliation—within the contexts of superstar humanitarianism, “new” army humanitarianism, and Western aid for regime switch in Africa and past? a few movies after 1994, akin to Black Hawk Down, lodge Rwanda, Blood Diamond, The final King of Scotland, The consistent Gardener, Shake fingers with the satan, Tears of the Sun, and District 9, build specific and implicit arguments in regards to the results of Western intervention in Africa. Do the emphases on human rights within the motion pictures provide a poignant expression of our shared humanity? Do they echo the colonial tropes of former “civilizing missions?” Or do human rights violations function as another mine of sensational photos for Hollywood’s astonishing storytelling?

The quantity offers analyses by means of teachers and activists within the fields of African reports, English, movie and media stories, diplomacy, and sociology throughout continents. This considerate and hugely enticing booklet is a helpful source in the event you search new and sundry methods to motion pictures approximately Africa.

Contributors: Harry Garuba and Natasha Himmelman; Margaret R. Higonnet, with Ethel R. Higgonet; Joyce B. Ashuntantang; Kenneth W. Harrow; Christopher Odhiambo; Ricardo Guthrie; Clifford T. Manlove; Earl Conteh-Morgan; Bennetta Jules-Rosette, J. R. Osborn, and Lea Marie Ruiz-Ade; Christopher Garland; Kimberly Nichele Brown; Jane Bryce; Iyunolu Osagie; and Dayna Oscherwitz.

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