This course on Hollywood films about Africa--from classics such as African Queen (East Africa), Tarzan (Equatorial Africa) and Out of Africa (Kenya) to recent productions such as Blood Diamond (Sierra Leone), The Last King of Scontland (Uganda), Lord of War (arms trade), The Constant Gardner (Kenya) and Black Hawk Down (Somalia)--will tack back and forth between filmic representation and case study, using the latter to critique the former. As contrastive material, the class will also draw on non-Hollywood films about Africa, for example Hotel Rwanda (Rwanda) or Lumumba (DRC).
This course on Hollywood films about Africa--from classics such as African Queen (East Africa), Tarzan (Equatorial Africa) and Out of Africa (Kenya) to recent productions such as Blood Diamond (Sierra Leone), The Last King of Scontland (Uganda), Lord of War (arms trade), The Constant Gardner (Kenya) and Black Hawk Down (Somalia)--will tack back and forth between filmic representation and case study, using the latter to critique the former. As contrastive material, the class will also draw on non-Hollywood films about Africa, for example Hotel Rwanda (Rwanda) or Lumumba (DRC).
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