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List of Contributors | p. vii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
History as cultural redemption in Gaston Kabore's precolonial-era films | p. 11 |
Beyond 'history': two films of the deep Mande past | p. 28 |
Tradition and resistance in Ousmane Sembene's films Emitai and Ceddo | p. 41 |
The transatlantic slave trade in cinema | p. 59 |
'What are we?': Proteus and the problematising of history | p. 82 |
The public lives of historical films: the case of Zulu and Zulu Dawn | p. 97 |
Breaker Morant: an African war through an Australian lens | p. 120 |
From Khartoum to Kufrah: filmic narratives of conquest and resistance | p. 136 |
Cheap if not always cheerful: French West Africa in the world wars in Black and White in Colour and Le Camp de Thiaroye | p. 148 |
Whites in Africa: Kenya's colonists in the films Out of Africa, Nowhere in Africa and White Mischief | p. 167 |
Beholding the colonial past in Claire Denis's Chocolat | p. 185 |
The Battle of Algiers: between fiction, memory and history | p. 203 |
Raoul Peck's Lumumba: history or hagiography? | p. 223 |
Flame and the historiography of armed struggle in Zimbabwe | p. 240 |
Picturing apartheid: with a particular focus 'Hollywood' histories of the 1970s | p. 256 |
Hotel Rwanda: too much heroism, too little history - or horror? | p. 279 |
Looking the beast in the (fictional) eye: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission on film | p. 300 |
Endnotes | p. 323 |
Index | p. 372 |
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