African cinema and human rights / edited by Mette Hjort and Eva Jørholt.
| Other author | Hjort, Mette. |
| Other author | Jørholt, Eva, 1957- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, Office of Scholarly Publishing, Herman B Wells Library, [2019] |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in the cinema of the black diaspora |
| Contents | Filmmaking on the African continent: on the centrality of human rights thinking / Mette Hjort and Eva Jørholt -- Perspectives. Human rights, Africa, and film: a cautionary tale / Mark Gibney -- African cinema: perspective correction / Rod Stoneman -- Africa's gift to the world: an interview with Gaston Kaboré / Rod Stoneman -- Toward new African languages of protest: African documentary films and human rights / Alessandro Jedlowski -- Challenging perspectives: an interview with Jean-Marie Teno / Melissa Thackway -- In defense of human rights filmmaking: a response to the skeptics, based on Kenyan examples / Mette Hjort -- 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 -- Cases. Ousmane Sembène's Moolaadé: peoples' rights vs human rights / Samba Gadjigo -- Haile Gerima's Harvest: 3000 years in the context of an evolving language of human rights / Ashish Rajadhyaksha -- Abducted twice? Difret (2015) and Schoolgirl killer (1999) / Tim Bergfelder -- Timbuktu and "l'homme de haine" / Kenneth Harrow -- Beats of the Antonov: a counter-narrative of endurance and survival / N. Frank Ukadike -- Human rights issues in the Nigerian films October 1 and Black November / Osakue Stevenson Omoera -- The anti-ecstasy of human rights: a foray into queer cinema on "homophobic Africa" / John Nguyet Erni -- Refugees from globalization: "clandestine" African migration to Europe in a human (rights) perspective / Eva Jørholt. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: African cinema and human rights Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2019 9780253039422 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018055027 |
| ISBN | 9780253039460 (e-book) |
| ISBN | (cl : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (pb : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |