African Cinema and Human Rights (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hjort, Mette; Jørholt, Eva

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 communities
• Legitimating, and consequently solidifying, an expanded scope for human rights
• Promoting 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253039446
• Artikelnr.: 56821423

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Index