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Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected Takes 1965-1987
Goran Olsson
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Description for Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected Takes 1965-1987
Paperback. Editor(s): Olsson, Goran; Vukovic, Sophie. Num Pages: 150 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; AJB; AJCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. Weight in Grams: 298.
An unblinking portrait of the anti-colonial struggles of the 1960s, Concerning Violence combines more than 150 arresting colour and black-and-white photographs from Goran Hugo Olsson's award-winning documentary by the same name, with passages from Frantz Fanon's classic The Wretched of the Earth (Penguin Classics, 2001). Concerning Violence is a powerful commentary on the history of colonialism and struggles for self-determination, whose echoes remain with us today, and will introduce a new generation to Frantz Fanon.
An unblinking portrait of the anti-colonial struggles of the 1960s, Concerning Violence combines more than 150 arresting colour and black-and-white photographs from Goran Hugo Olsson's award-winning documentary by the same name, with passages from Frantz Fanon's classic The Wretched of the Earth (Penguin Classics, 2001). Concerning Violence is a powerful commentary on the history of colonialism and struggles for self-determination, whose echoes remain with us today, and will introduce a new generation to Frantz Fanon.
Product Details
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
150
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781608465323
SKU
V9781608465323
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About Goran Olsson
G ran Hugo Olsson is a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and author. He is the director of four feature films, including The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 and Concerning Violence. This is his second book. Sophie Vukovic is a Stockholm-based filmmaker. Her short films have screened at Swedish and international festivals. She has also worked as an assistant director and editor.
Reviews for Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected Takes 1965-1987
Praise for the Concerning Violence documentary: By grounding colonial brutalities and the responses to those injustices in the visual, the phenomenon of colonialism attains a larger and more global significance. Olsson's interest is in decolonisation
that short yet potent moment at the tail end of an anti-colonial war followed by the transfer of power when the new nation comes ... Read more
that short yet potent moment at the tail end of an anti-colonial war followed by the transfer of power when the new nation comes ... Read more