African cinema and human rights / edited by Mette Hjort and Eva Jørholt.

Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.

Filmmaking on the African continent: on the centrality of human rights thinking / Mette Hjort and Eva Jørholt -- 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 -- 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 Harrow -- Beats of the Antonov: a counter-narrative of endurance and survival / N. Frank Ukadike -- Human rights issues in the Nigerian films October 1 and Black November / Osakue Stevenson Omoera -- The anti-ecstasy of human rights: a foray into queer cinema on "homophobic Africa" / John Erni -- Refugees from globalization: "clandestine" African migration to Europe in a human (rights) perspective / Eva Jørholt.

African Cinema and Human Rights is an interdisciplinary look at the role of moving images in human rights struggles through the lens of African cinema.

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