Black And White In Colour: Africa's History On Screen »

Vivian Bickford-Smith is a professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town.

Richard Mendelsohn is the head of the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. He has published extensively on South African Jewish history, and together with Vivian Bickford-Smith, has pioneered teaching and research in film and history.

Black and White in Colour: African History on Screen considers how the African past has been represented in a wide range of historical films. Written by a team of eminent international scholars, the volume provides extensive coverage of both place and time and deals with major issues in the written history of Africa. Themes include the slave trade, imperialism and colonialism, racism, and anticolonial resistance. Many of the films will be familiar to readers: they include Out of Africa, Hotel Rwanda, Breaker Morant, Cry Freedom, The Battle of Algiers, and Chocolat.

List of Contributors     vii
Introduction   Vivian Bickford-Smith   Richard Mendelsohn     1
History as cultural redemption in Gaston Kabore's precolonial-era films   Mahir Saul     11
Beyond 'history': two films of the deep Mande past   Ralph A. Austen     28
Tradition and resistance in Ousmane Sembene's films Emitai and Ceddo   Robert Baum     41
The transatlantic slave trade in cinema   Robert Harms     59
'What are we?': Proteus and the problematising of history   Nigel Worden     82
The public lives of historical films: the case of Zulu and Zulu Dawn   Carolyn Hamilton   Litheko Modisane     97
Breaker Morant: an African war through an Australian lens   Richard Mendelsohn     120
From Khartoum to Kufrah: filmic narratives of conquest and resistance   Shamil Jeppie     136
Cheap if not always cheerful: French West Africa in the world wars in Black and White in Colour and Le Camp de Thiaroye   Bill Nasson     148
Whites in Africa: Kenya's colonists in the films Out of Africa, Nowhere in Africa and White Mischief   Nigel Penn     167
Beholding the colonial past in Claire Denis's Chocolat   Ruth Watson     185
The Battle ofAlgiers: between fiction, memory and history   Patrick Harries     203
Raoul Peck's Lumumba: history or hagiography?   David Moore     223
Flame and the historiography of armed struggle in Zimbabwe   Teresa Barnes     240
Picturing apartheid: with a particular focus 'Hollywood' histories of the 1970s   Vivian Bickford-Smith     256
Hotel Rwanda: too much heroism, too little history - or horror?   Mohamed Adhikari     279
Looking the beast in the (fictional) eye: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission on film   David Philips     300
Endnotes     323
Index     372