African Cinema and Human Rights (eBook)

Mette Hjort, Eva Jorholt (Herausgeber)

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2019
326 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-03944-6 (ISBN)

Infos

1. This volume is a foundational text exploring a variety of cinematic formats and disciplinary Perspectives. It has strong classroom appeal and will be useful in courses in cinema, anthropology, history, and global politics.

2. The works in this collection handle timely, key questions, such as how does the presentation of Africa and the understanding of human rights issues differ between films produced by Africans and films produced outside of the continent?

3. The editors are experienced and have an impressive number of solo authored and edited publications each. Mette Hjort is a returning IU Press author. Included are essays by both up-and-coming and major scholars of African cinema alongside scholar-filmmakers and legal experts. Interviews with Jean Marie Teno and Gaston Kaboré, two African filmmakers whose work routinely addresses issues of human rights, provide additional non-scholarly perspectives.

With its interdisciplinary scope, attention to practitioners' self-understandings, broad perspectives, and particular case studies, African Cinema and Human Rights is a foundational text that offers questions, reflections, and evidence that help us to consider film's ideal role within the context of our ever-continuing struggle towards a more just global society.

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Essays and case studies exploring how filmmaking can play a role in promoting social and economic justice. Bringing theory and practice together, African Cinema and Human Rights argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the causes of justice and fairness. The contributors to this volume identify three key ways in which film can achieve these goals: Documenting human rights abuses and thereby supporting the claims of victims and goals of truth and reconciliation within larger communitiesLegitimating, and consequently solidifying, an expanded scope for human rightsPromoting the realization of social and economic right Including the voices of African scholars, scholar-filmmakers, African directors Jean-Marie Teno and Gaston Kaboré, and researchers whose work focuses on transnational cinema, this volume explores overall perspectives, and differences of perspective, pertaining to Africa, human rights, and human rights filmmaking alongside specific case studies of individual films and areas of human rights violations. With its interdisciplinary scope, attention to practitioners’ self-understandings, broad perspectives, and particular case studies, African Cinema and Human Rights is a foundational text that offers questions, reflections, and evidence that help us to consider film’s ideal role within the context of our ever-continuing struggle towards a more just global society.

Autor

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Mette Hjort is Chair Professor of Humanities and Dean of Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University. She is editor (with Ursula Lindqvist) of A Companion to Nordic Cinema.

Eva Jørholt is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Copenhagen, and former editor in chief of the Danish Film Institute's journal Kosmorama. She is editor (with Mette Hjort and Eva Novrup Redvall) of The Danish Directors 2: Dialogues on the New Danish Fiction Cinema.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Filmmaking on the African Continent: On the Centrality of Human Rights Thinking / Mette Hjort and Eva Jørholt

Part I: Perspectives

1. Human Rights, Africa, and Film: A Cautionary Tale / Mark Gibney

2. African Cinema: Perspective Correction / Rod Stoneman

3. Africa's Gift to the World: An Interview with Gaston Kaboré / Rod Stoneman

4. Toward New African Languages of Protest: African Documentary Films and Human Rights / Alessandro Jedlowski

5. Challenging Perspectives: An Interview with Jean-Marie Teno / Melissa Thackway

6. In Defense of Human Rights Filmmaking: A Response to the Skeptics, Based on Kenyan Examples / Mette Hjort

7. The Zanzibar International Film Festival and Its Children Panorama: Using Films to Socialize Human Rights into the Educational Sector and a Wider Public Sphere / Martin Mhando

Part II: Cases

8. Ousmane Sembène's Moolaadé: Peoples' Rights vs Human Rights / Samba Gadjigo

9. Haile Gerima's Harvest: 3000 Years in the Context of an Evolving Language of Human Rights / Ashish Rajadhyaksha

10. Abducted Twice? Difret (2015) and Schoolgirl Killer (1999) / Tim Bergfelder

11. Timbuktu and "L'homme de haine" / Kenneth Harrow

12. Beats of the Antonov: A Counter-narrative of Endurance and Survival / N. Frank Ukadike

13. Human Rights Issues in the Nigerian Films October 1 and Black November / Osakue Stevenson Omoera

14. The Anti-Ecstasy of Human Rights: A Foray into Queer Cinema on "Homophobic Africa" / John Erni

15. Refugees from Globalization: "Clandestine" African Migration to Europe in a Human (Rights) Perspective / Eva Jørholt

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Abderrahmane Sissako • Activist • Africa • African Cinema and Human Rights • African film • Aimé Césaire • Alessandro Jedlowski • Ashish Rajadhyaksha • asymmetrical power structures • Beats of the Antonov • Black November • Call Me Kuchu • Cameroon • children • Cinema • clandestine migration • Difret • direct speech • distant suffering • Documentary • Documentary Film • Documentary films • Ethiopia • Eva Jørholt • Film • Film production • Gaston Kaboré • God Loves Uganda • Haile Gerima • Hajooj Kuka • Harvest: 3000 Years • Hollywood’s Africa • Human Rights • human rights discourses • Imagine • Indiana University Press • Islamism • IUP • IU Press • Jean-Marie Teno • John Erni • Judy Kibinge • Kenneth Harrow • Kenya • Mark Gibney • Martin Mhando • Melissa Thackway • Mette Hjort • Migration • moolaadé • N. Frank Ukadike • Nigeria • Nollywood • October 1 • Osakue Stevenson Omoera • Ousmane Sembène • peoples’ rights • Queer • Rod Stoneman • Samba Gadjigo • Schoolgirl Killer • socializing human rights • structural adjustment programs • Sudan • The Charter of Mandé • Tim Bergfelder • Timbuktu • Uganda • Western funding • White Saviors • Women’s rights • Zanzibar • Zanzibar International Film Festival
• ISBN-10: 0-253-03944-4 / 0253039444
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-03944-6 / 9780253039446