Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Film Stills ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Abbreviations xvii
7. Introduction: “African Cinema”: Problems and Possibilities 1
8. 1. Cinema and Violence in South Africa 34
9. 2. Fools and Victims. Adapting Rationalized Rape into Feminist Film 63
10. 3. Redeeming Features: Screening HIV/AIDS, Screening Out Rape in Gavin Hood’s Tsotsi 90
11. 4. From Black and White to “Coloured”. Racial Identity in 1950s and 1990s South Africa in Two Versions of A Walk in the Night 119
12. 5. Audio-visualizing “Invisible” Violence: Remaking and Reinventing Cry, the Beloved Country 145
13. 6. Cinema and Violence in Francophone West Africa 177
14. 7. Losing the Plot, Restoring the Lost Chapter: Aristotle in Cameroon 205
15. 8. African Incar(me)nation. Joseph Gaï Ramaka’s Karmen Geï (2001) 218
16. 9. Humanizing the Old Testament’s Origins, Historicizing Genocide’s Origins. Cheick Oumar Sissoko’s La Genèse (1999) 252
17. Conclusion 275
18. Notes 279
19. Filmography 289
20. Bibliography 299
21. Index 325