From Leopold III’s Master of the Jungle to Contemporary Congolese Eco-Cinema: Postcolonial Resonance
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| Publication date | 2022 |
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| Book title | Unfinished Histories |
| Book subtitle | Empire and Postcolonial Resonance in Central Africa and Belgium |
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| Pages (from-to) | 337-358 |
| Publisher | Leuven: Leuven University Press |
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| Abstract | In this chapter, I will have two films resonate with each other: a 1958 colonial film initiated by Leopold III called Les Seigneurs de la forêt [The Masters of the Congo Jungle], and a 2020 post-colonial Congolese film, Mother Nature, by Maisha Maene, produced by Yole!Africa in Goma. Both films were shot in eastern Congo, an area where ecological disasters were caused by colonial relations to nature and compounded by socio-economic and political conflicts. I will question how the films themselves are part of these relations, escape them, or provide alternatives. |
| Document type | Chapter |
| Language | English |
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https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv31djqxw.19
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https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/93491
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv31djqxw.19
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