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African Cinema and Human Rights

Hjort Mette Jørholt, Eva
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780253039422
Publisert
2019-03-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Indiana University Press
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229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
320

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Hjort Mette
Jørholt, Eva

Om bidragsyterne

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.

African Cinema and Human Rights

Hjort Mette Jørholt, Eva
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk
Hjort Mette Jørholt, Eva
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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 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.
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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.
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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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 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.
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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.
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
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780253039422
Publisert
2019-03-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Indiana University Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
320

Redaktør
Hjort Mette
Jørholt, Eva

Om bidragsyterne

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.

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