Library Guides: African Studies: Film

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African Cinema and Human Rights by Mette Hjort (Editor); Eva Jørholt (Editor)
ISBN: 9780253039422
Publication Date: 2019-03-01
Urban Film and Everyday Practice by Alexandra Parker
ISBN: 9781137550125
Publication Date: 2016-05-28
While urban films often reinforce spatial stereotypes, they can also produce a resistant reading that helps transgress spatial boundaries, especially in in urban contexts where spatial inequalities and urban divisions are stark. This book reveals the nature of urban film's influence through the lens and space of Johannesburg.

Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Full-text database of over 100 scholarly journals published by university presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

Anthropology (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Anthropology brings together a wide range of ethnographic documentaries, indigenous media, field notes, study guides and raw footage, covering human behavior the world over.
Docuseek This link opens in a new window
Docuseek2 provides exclusive educational streaming access to documentary and social issue films from Bullfrog Films, Collective Eye Films, Icarus Films (including The Fanlight Collection and dGenerate Films), Kartemquin Films, Scorpion TV, Sincerely Films, Terra Nova Films and Villon Films
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that provides students, faculty, and staff with access to a variety of documentary and feature films. Kanopy works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to offer collections including titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation, Psychotherapy.net and more.

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