Journal article
Not Reconciled: Grey Matter (Ruhorahoza 2011) and the Lacunae of Post-genocide Rwandan Cinema
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, Vol.31(5), pp.78-86
2017
Abstract
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.
Details
- Title
- Not Reconciled: Grey Matter (Ruhorahoza 2011) and the Lacunae of Post-genocide Rwandan Cinema
- Authors/Creators
- M. Broderick (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, Vol.31(5), pp.78-86
- Publisher
- Routledge as part of Taylor & Francis
- Identifiers
- 991005541684607891
- Copyright
- © 2017 Unisa Press
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- Citation topics
- 10 Arts & Humanities
- 10.99 Literary Theory
- 10.99.1136 Cinema
- Web Of Science research areas
- Cultural Studies
- ESI research areas
- Social Sciences, general