Not Reconciled
Grey Matter (Ruhorahoza 2011) and the Lacunae of Post-genocide Rwandan Cinema
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11417410 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mick Broderick (0000-0001-7204-1512, Murdoch University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 78-86 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Arts (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-0046 • E-ISSN: 1992-6049 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02560046.2017.1348685 |
| OpenAlex | W2796863333 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
In the two decades following the Rwandan genocide, a small number of feature films have attempted to represent aspects of the traumatic national experience of this mass violence. Apart from a few documentaries, official Rwandan government efforts towards national reconciliation remain largely absent in indigenous feature films, most of which treat their subject matter via conventional, social realist narratives. This essay assesses Kivu Ruhorahoza’s formidable debut production, Grey Matter (2011), and its aesthetic echoes of earlier modernist European cinema’s lacunary evocation of the Holocaust and the trauma of World War Two
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Evocation · Feature film · Genocide · Indigenous · Literature · Media studies · Movie theater · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Subject matter · The Holocaust · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · South African History and Culture
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |