{"product_id":"hollywood-and-africa-okaka-opio-dokotum-9781920033668","title":"Hollywood and Africa: Recycling the 'Dark Continent' Myth, 1908-2020","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHollywood and Africa - recycling the 'Dark Continent' myth from 1908-2020\u003c\/em\u003e is a study of over a century of stereotypical Hollywood film productions about Africa. It argues that the myth of the Dark Continent continues to influence Western cultural productions about Africa as a cognitive-based system of knowledge, especially in history, literature and film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHollywood and Africa\u003c\/em\u003e identifies the 'colonial mastertext' of the Dark Continent mythos by providing a historiographic genealogy and context for the term's development and consolidation. An array of literary and paraliterary film adaptation theories are employed to analyse the deep genetic strands of Hollywood-Africa film adaptations. The mutations of the Dark Continent mythos across time and space are then tracked through the classical, neoclassical and new wave Hollywood-Africa phases in order to illustrate how Hollywood productions about Africa recycle, revise, reframe, reinforce, transpose, interrogate -- and even critique -- these tropes of Darkest Africa while sustaining the colonial mastertext and rising cyberactivism against Hollywood's whitewashing of African history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Okaka Opio Dokotum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1920033661\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781920033668\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nisc (Pty) Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.70d","brand":"Okaka Opio Dokotum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978466394367,"sku":"9781920033668","price":60.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1eb7532b-bf17-4646-8a1c-1d9a0fcedf8d.jpg?v=1683241694","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hollywood-and-africa-okaka-opio-dokotum-9781920033668","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}