Hollywood's Africa after 1994

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 c o n t e n t s introduction: African blood, Hollywood’s diamonds? Hollywood’s Africa after 1994 MAryEllEn Higgins 1 1 the Cited and the Uncited: toward an Emancipatory reading of representations of Africa HArry gArUbA And nAtAsHA HiMMElMAn 15 2 the troubled terrain of Human rights Films: Blood Diamond, The Last King of Scotland, and The Devil Came on Horseback MArgArEt r. HigOnnEt, witH EtHEl r. HigOnnEt 35 3 Hollywood’s representations of Human rights: the Case of terry george’s Hotel Rwanda JOyCE b. AsHUntAntAng 54 4 Hollywood’s Cowboy Humanitarianism in Black Hawk Down and Tears of the Sun MAryEllEn Higgins 68 5 Again, the darkness: Shake Hands with the Devil KEnnEtH w. HArrOw 83 6 Ambiguities and Paradoxes: Framing northern intervention in The Constant Gardener CHristOPHEr OdHiAMbO JOsEPH 96 vi  Contents 7 Minstrelsy and Mythic Appetites: The Last King of Scotland’s Heart of darkness in the Jubilee year of African independence riCArdO gUtHriE 110 8 “An image of Africa”: representations of Modern Colonialism in Africa in Peter Jackson’s King Kong CliFFOrd t. MAnlOvE 125 9 Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est la Même Chose: Hollywood’s Constructions of Africa in Lord of War EArl COntEH-MOrgAn 143 10 new Jack African Cinema: Dangerous Ground; Cry, the Beloved Country; and Blood Diamond bEnnEttA JUlEs-rOsEttE, J.r. OsbOrn, And lEA MAriE rUiz-AdE 157 11 “it is a very rough game, Almost as rough as Politics”: rugby as visual Metaphor and the Future of the new south Africa in Invictus CHristOPHEr gArlAnd 177 12 “Every brother Ain’t a brother”: Cultural dissonance and nigerian Malaise in District ’s new south Africa KiMbErly niCHElE brOwn 193 13 Coaxing the beast Out of the Cage: secrecy and disclosure in Red Dust and Catch a Fire JAnE bryCE 207 14 situating Agency in Blood Diamond and Ezra iyUnOlU OsAgiE 222 15 bye bye Hollywood: African Cinema and its double in Mahamet-saleh Haroun’s Bye Bye Africa dAynA OsCHErwitz 240 list of Contributors 261 index 267 ...