Lindiwe Dovey is lecturer in African film and performance arts at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She holds a BA Honors degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. She is the founding director of the Cambridge African Film Festival and has made both documentary and fiction films.

[An] important book... Highly recommended. Choice

• List of Film Stills Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: "African Cinema": Problems and Possibilities 1. Cinema and Violence in South Africa 2. Fools and Victims: Adapting Rationalized Rape into Feminist Film 3. Redeeming Features: Screening HIV/AIDS, Screening Out Rape in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi 4. From Black and White to "Coloured": Racial Identity in 1950s and 1990s South Africa in Two Versions of A Walk in the Night 5. Audio-visualizing "Invisible" Violence: Remaking and Reinventing Cry, the Beloved Country 6. Cinema and Violence in Francophone West Africa 7. Losing the Plot, Restoring the Lost Chapter: Aristotle in Cameroon 8. African Incar(me)nation: Joseph Ga' Ramaka's Karmen Ge' (2001) 9. Humanizing the Old Testament's Origins, Historicizing Genocide's Origins: Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La GenSse (1999) Conclusion Notes Filmography Bibliography Index

Lindiwe Dovey is lecturer in African film and performance arts at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She holds a BA Honors degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. She is the founding director of the Cambridge African Film Festival and has made both documentary and fiction films.

[An] important book... Highly recommended. Choice

• List of Film Stills Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: "African Cinema": Problems and Possibilities 1. Cinema and Violence in South Africa 2. Fools and Victims: Adapting Rationalized Rape into Feminist Film 3. Redeeming Features: Screening HIV/AIDS, Screening Out Rape in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi 4. From Black and White to "Coloured": Racial Identity in 1950s and 1990s South Africa in Two Versions of A Walk in the Night 5. Audio-visualizing "Invisible" Violence: Remaking and Reinventing Cry, the Beloved Country 6. Cinema and Violence in Francophone West Africa 7. Losing the Plot, Restoring the Lost Chapter: Aristotle in Cameroon 8. African Incar(me)nation: Joseph Ga' Ramaka's Karmen Ge' (2001) 9. Humanizing the Old Testament's Origins, Historicizing Genocide's Origins: Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La GenSse (1999) Conclusion Notes Filmography Bibliography Index

Lindiwe Dovey is lecturer in African film and performance arts at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She holds a BA Honors degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. She is the founding director of the Cambridge African Film Festival and has made both documentary and fiction films.

[An] important book... Highly recommended. Choice

• List of Film Stills Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: "African Cinema": Problems and Possibilities 1. Cinema and Violence in South Africa 2. Fools and Victims: Adapting Rationalized Rape into Feminist Film 3. Redeeming Features: Screening HIV/AIDS, Screening Out Rape in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi 4. From Black and White to "Coloured": Racial Identity in 1950s and 1990s South Africa in Two Versions of A Walk in the Night 5. Audio-visualizing "Invisible" Violence: Remaking and Reinventing Cry, the Beloved Country 6. Cinema and Violence in Francophone West Africa 7. Losing the Plot, Restoring the Lost Chapter: Aristotle in Cameroon 8. African Incar(me)nation: Joseph Ga' Ramaka's Karmen Ge' (2001) 9. Humanizing the Old Testament's Origins, Historicizing Genocide's Origins: Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La GenSse (1999) Conclusion Notes Filmography Bibliography Index