Rebuilding the Angolan body politic: global and local projections of identity and protest in O Herói/The Hero (Zézé Gamboa, 2004)

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Rebuilding the Angolan body politic: global and local projections of identity and protest in O Herói/The Hero (Zézé Gamboa, 2004)

This article uses a reading of Zézé Gamboa's award-winning 2004 feature as a basis for an exploration of post-conflict Angolan screen culture and of its impact both at home and internationally. It considers how O Herói’s depiction of a war-torn nation, and of the impediments to its reconstructi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sabine, Mark
Format:	Article
Published:	Intellect Ltd 2012
Subjects:	Angola; post-conflict culture; African cinema; national identity; human rights
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32167/

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