Film and Trauma
Africa Speaks to Itself through Truth and Reconciliation Films
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9359447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mhando Mhando (corresponding author), Tomaselli Tomaselli |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 30-30 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Black Camera (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1536-3155 • E-ISSN: 1947-4237 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/blc.2009.1.1.30 |
| OpenAlex | W2011686836 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 3 |
Films made by Africans on wars, gender oppression, slavery, and trauma project not only confrontations between individual filmmakers and their subjects, but they also reveal the confrontations between individuals and groups and the collective structures which shape, control, and direct their lives. How these collective structures become a story’s foreground is an important aspect of the cinematic signification process. The resulting film’s place and role in trauma mediation cannot be taken lightly nor can it be generalized. Following Ann Kaplan and Ban Wang’s book Trauma and Cinema: Cross-Cultural Explorations (2004, p. 9), we observe regional films’ roles as cure, shock treatment, very minimally as voyeurism, and of course as witnessing. These films become “facilitating agents for the mobilization of ‘non-conventional resources’ such as social awareness, solidarity, dedication, commitment,” to serve a historical sense of duty. This paper will examine the relations between the individual, his/her community, and society in general. A cognate concern is with how African films reveal formal signs conditioned by structures of social organization, cultural affinity, and immediate conditions of interaction. We also consider cinema’s relationship to historical referents and memory while figuring out the specific modes of address, all of which contribute to the growing cinematic expressions in Africa
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |