Includes bibliographical references, filmographies, and index.
Contents:
Filmmaking on the African continent : on the centrality of human rights thinking / Mette Hjort and Eva Jørholt -- Part I. Perspectives. Human rights, Africa, and film : a cautionary tale / Mark Gibney -- African cinema : perspective correction / Rod Stoneman -- Africa's gift to the world : an interview with Gaston Kaboré / Rod Stoneman -- Toward new African languages of protest : African documentary films and human rights / Alessandro Jedlowski -- Challenging perspectives : an interview with Jean-Marie Teno / Melissa Thackway -- In defense of human rights filmmaking : a response to the skeptics, based on Kenyan examples / Mette Hjort -- The Zanzibar International Film Festival and its children panorama : using films to socialize human rights into the educational sector and a wider public sphere / Martin Mhando -- Part II. Cases. Ousmane Sembène's Moolaadé : peoples' rights vs. human rights / Samba Gadjigo -- Haile Gerima's Harvest : 3000 years in the context of an evolving language of human rights / Ashish Rajadhyaksha -- Abducted twice? Difret (2015) and Schoolgirl killer (1999) / Tim Bergfelder -- Timbuktu and "L'homme de haine" / Kenneth W. Harrow -- Beats of the Antonov : a counternarrative of endurance and survival / N. Frank Ukadike -- Human rights issues in the Nigerian films October 1 and Black November / Osakue Stevenson Omoera -- The antiecstasy of human rights : a foray into queer cinema on "homophobic Africa" / John Nguyet Erni -- Refugees from globalization : "clandestine" African migration to Europe in a human (rights) perspective / Eva Jørholt.
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