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Table of ContentsList 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
