Film representations of the Rwandan genocide
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6030986 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Urther Rwafa (University of South Africa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 389-408 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Identities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1472-5843 • E-ISSN: 1472-5851 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14725843.2010.513254 |
| OpenAlex | W2055203769 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
In 1994 Rwanda experienced a devastating genocide in which nearly a million Tutsi and moderate Hutu were killed by Hutu extremists. Written scholarly works explain the Rwandan genocide in historical terms. Academic work on media and the genocide tend to emphasise the role played by Radio-Television Libre Des Mille Collines (RTLM) and the newspaper Kangura in instigating the Rwandan genocide. A steady output of literature on the depiction of the genocide in film is emerging but it is fragmentary, and appears in journals that are not easily accessible. The little material research on the Rwandan genocide film does not pay sufficient attention to the stereotyped language of film and how these manifest themselves through verbal, visual, sound, colour and silence aspects which constitute the semiotic system of film. This article, therefore, explores how the Rwandan genocide is represented through the documentary films A good man in hell (2002) and Keepers of memory (2004), and the feature films Hotel Rwanda (2004) and Sometimes in April (2005). These films have been sampled first because they all focus on the Rwandan genocide; second because the films purport to approach the subject of the genocide from different perspectives. Film is an important medium for socialisation
Aesthetics · Art · Depiction · Genocide · Literature · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Silence · Sociology · Cambodian History and Society · Computer Science · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
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The Failure to Prevent Genocide in Rwanda
Re-Imagining Rwanda
Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies
Melissa Steyn, "Whiteness just Isn't What It Used to Be". White Identity in a Changing South Africa
Recent Developments
Continuity and change
When Wounds and Corpses Fail to Speak
Global Humanitarianism, Race, and the Spectacle of the African Corpse in Current Western Representations of the Rwandan Genocide
Afterword
Beyond colonial stereotypes
The Anatomy of Power
A Continent for the Taking
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The Other Question
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
The Media and the Rwanda Genocide
Suffering and Survival in Central Africa
Bearing Witness to Mass Murder
Lending a Voice to the Voiceless
Marie Béatrice Umutesi's Truth
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |