African Cinema and Human Rights by Mette Hjort (English) Paperback Book

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African Cinema and Human Rights is an interdisciplinary look at the role of moving images in human rights struggles through the lens of African cinema.

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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 communities; legitimating, and consequently solidifying, an expanded scope for human rights; and promoting the realization of social and economic rights. Including the voices of African scholars, scholar-filmmakers, African directors Jean-Marie Teno and Gaston Kabore, 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Filmmaking on the African Continent: On the Centrality of Human Rights Thinking / Mette Hjort and Eva JørholtPart I: Perspectives 1. Human Rights, Africa, and Film: A Cautionary Tale / Mark Gibney2. African Cinema: Perspective Correction / Rod Stoneman3. Africa's Gift to the World: An Interview with Gaston Kaboré / Rod Stoneman4. Toward New African Languages of Protest: African Documentary Films and Human Rights / Alessandro Jedlowski5. Challenging Perspectives: An Interview with Jean-Marie Teno / Melissa Thackway6. In Defense of Human Rights Filmmaking: A Response to the Skeptics, Based on Kenyan Examples / Mette Hjort7. 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 MhandoPart II: Cases8. Ousmane Sembène's Moolaadé: Peoples' Rights vs Human Rights / Samba Gadjigo9. Haile Gerima's Harvest: 3000 Years in the Context of an Evolving Language of Human Rights / Ashish Rajadhyaksha10. Abducted Twice? Difret (2015) and Schoolgirl Killer (1999) / Tim Bergfelder11. Timbuktu and "L'homme de haine" / Kenneth Harrow12. Beats of the Antonov: A Counter-narrative of Endurance and Survival / N. Frank Ukadike13. Human Rights Issues in the Nigerian Films October 1 and Black November / Osakue Stevenson Omoera14. The Anti-Ecstasy of Human Rights: A Foray into Queer Cinema on "Homophobic Africa" / John Erni15. Refugees from Globalization: "Clandestine" African Migration to Europe in a Human (Rights) Perspective / Eva JørholtIndex

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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 Kabor

Details ISBN0253039436 Publisher Indiana University Press Year 2019 ISBN-10 0253039436 ISBN-13 9780253039439 Format Paperback Imprint Indiana University Press Place of Publication Bloomington, IN Country of Publication United States Edited by Eva Jørholt DEWEY 791.43096073 Publication Date 2019-03-01 Pages 320 Language English UK Release Date 2019-03-01 AU Release Date 2019-03-01 NZ Release Date 2019-03-01 US Release Date 2019-03-01 Illustrations 33 Illustrations, black and white Author Eva Jørholt Birth 1962 Affiliation Ntu, S'pore Position Royalty Account Qualifications S.J. Series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora Alternative 9780253039422 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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