Inside The Hotel Rwanda

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The story of what happened in the Hotel des Mille Collines during Rwanda's genocide in 1994 as told by Edouard Kayihura, one of the survivors of the incident. Kayihura and other hotel refugees do not endorse Rusesabagina's version of the events, as seen in the 2004 movie Hotel Rwanda.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Edouard Kayihura
Publisher : BenBella Books
Release : 2014
File : 298 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781937856748


Inside The Hotel Rwanda

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In 2004, the Academy Award–nominated movie Hotel Rwanda lionized hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina for single-handedly saving the lives of all who sought refuge in the Hotel des Milles Collines during Rwanda's genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. Because of the film, the real-life Rusesabagina has been compared to Oskar Schindler, but unbeknownst to the public, the hotel's refugees don't endorse Rusesabagina's version of the events. In the wake of Hotel Rwanda's international success, Rusesabagina is one of the most well-known Rwandans and now the smiling face of the very Hutu Power groups who drove the genocide. He is accused by the Rwandan prosecutor general of being a genocide negationist and funding the terrorist group Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). In Inside the Hotel Rwanda, survivor Edouard Kayihura tells his own personal story of what life was really like during those harrowing 100 days within the walls of that infamous hotel and offers the testimonies of others who survived there, from Hutu and Tutsi to UN peacekeepers. Kayihura tells of his life in a divided society and his journey to the place he believed would be safe from slaughter. Inside the Hotel Rwanda exposes Paul Rusesabagina as a profiteering, politically ambitious Hutu Power sympathizer who extorted money from those who sought refuge, threatening to send those who did not pay to the genocidaires, despite pleas from the hotel's corporate ownership to stop. Inside the Hotel Rwanda is at once a memoir, a critical deconstruction of a heralded Hollywood movie alleged to be factual, and a political analysis aimed at exposing a falsely created hero using his fame to be a political force, spouting the same ethnic apartheid that caused the genocide two decades ago.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Edouard Kayihura
Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.
Release : 2014-04-01
File : 229 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781937856731


Film Moments

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Film is made of moments. In its earliest form, the cinema was a moment: mere seconds recorded and projected into the darkness. Even as film has developed into today's complex and intricate medium, it is the brief, temporary and transitory that combines to create the whole. Our memories of films are composed of the moments we deem to be crucial: touchstones for our understanding and appreciation. Moments matter. The 38 specially commissioned essays in Film Moments examine a wide selection of key scenes across a broad spectrum of national cinemas, historical periods and genres, featuring films by renowned auteurs including Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir and Vincente Minnelli and important contemporary directors such as Pedro Costa, Zhang Ke Jia and Quentin Tarantino, addressing films including City Lights, Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, The Night of the Hunter, Wild Strawberries, 8 1?2, Bonnie and Clyde, Star Wars, Conte d'été, United 93 and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Film Moments provides both an enlightening introduction for students to the diversity of approaches and concerns in the study of film, and a dynamic and vibrant account of key film sequences for anyone interested in enhancing their understanding of cinema.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : James Walters
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release : 2017-10-07
File : 194 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781349924554


Into The Dark

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A Hollywood screenwriter/producer and film professor explores forty-five of the twenty-first century's most popular films as vehicles of common grace.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Craig Detweiler
Publisher : Baker Academic
Release : 2008-08
File : 320 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780801035920


Representing The Experience Of War And Atrocity

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This book explores how the experience of war and related atrocities tend to be visually expressed and how such articulations and representations are circulated and consumed. Each chapter of this volume examines how an image can contribute to a richer understanding of the experience of war and atrocity and thus they contribute to the burgeoning field of the "criminology of war". Topics include the destruction of war in oppositional cultural forms - comparing the Nazi period with the ISIS destruction of Palmyra - and the visual aesthetics of violence deployed by Jihadi terrorism. The contributors are a multi-disciplinary team drawn mainly from criminology but also sociology, international relations, gender studies, English and the visual arts. This book will advance this field in new directions with refreshing, original work.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Ronnie Lippens
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2019-04-26
File : 262 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783030139254


Writing And Filming The Genocide Of The Tutsis In Rwanda

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Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History is an innovative work in Francophone and African studies that examines a wide range of responses to the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. From survivor testimonies, to novels by African authors, to films such as Hotel Rwanda and Sometimes in April, the arts of witnessing are varied, comprehensive, and compelling. Alexandre Dauge-Roth compares the specific potential and the limits of each medium to craft unique responses to the genocide and instill in us its haunting legacy. In the wake of genocide, urgent questions arise: How do survivors both claim their shared humanity and speak the radically personal and violent experience of their past? How do authors and filmmakers make inconceivable trauma accessible to a society that will always remain foreign to their experience? How are we transformed by the genocide through these various modes of listening, viewing, and reading?

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Genre : History
Author : Alexandre Dauge-Roth
Publisher : Lexington Books
Release : 2010-04-27
File : 306 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780739147627


Teaching Politics Beyond The Book

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To teach political issues such as political struggle, justice, interstate conflict, etc. educators rely mostly on textbooks and lectures. However, many other forms of narrative exist that can elevate our understanding of such issues. This innovative work seeks new ways to foster learning beyond the textbook and lecture model, by using creative and new media, including graphic novels, animated films, hip-hop music, Twitter, and more. Discussing the opportunities these media offer to teach and engage students about politics, the work presents concrete ways on how to use them, along with teaching and assessment strategies, all tested in the classroom. The contributors are dedicated educators from various types of institutions whose essays span a variety of political topics and examine how non-traditional "texts" can promote critical thinking and intellectual growth among students in colleges and universities. The first of its kind to discuss a wide range of alternative texts and media, the book will be a valuable resource to anyone seeking to develop innovative curricula and engage their students in the study of politics.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Robert W. Glover
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release : 2012-11-22
File : 357 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781441179784


A Year In Rwanda

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Working as an Education Advisor in a remote Rwandan district for a year gave Denis an insight into a complex society seldom experienced by casual visitors. The book is an anecdotal, humorous and informative account of the events of that period as he explores multiple facets of Rwandan daily life. Each chapter begins with a beautiful full-length photograph and the text is dotted with snapshots referencing the descriptive content. A Year in Rwanda will be invaluable both for people planning to live in the country, as well as visitors and armchair travellers looking for more than a superficial understanding of Rwandan society.

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Genre : Travel
Author : Denis Walls
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release : 2012-06-15
File : 192 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781471736315


The Rwandan Genocide On Film

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The Rwandan genocide was one of the most shameful events of the 20th century. Many Westerners' understanding of it is based upon the Oscar-winning film Hotel Rwanda and the critically acclaimed Shooting Dogs. Yet how accurately do these films depict events in Rwanda in 1994? Drawing on new scholarship, this collection of essays explores a variety of feature films and documentaries about the genocide to understand its expression in both Western and Rwandan cinema. Interviews with filmmakers are featured, including journalist Steve Bradshaw (BBC's Panorama), director Nick Hughes (100 Days), director Lee Isaac Chung (Munyurangabo) and Rwandan filmmakers Eric Kabera and Kivu Ruhorahoza.

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Genre : History
Author : Matthew Edwards
Publisher : McFarland
Release : 2018-07-09
File : 273 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781476670720


Migration Ethics And Power

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In 2014, the ethics and politics of hospitality were brought into stark relief. Three years into the Syrian conflict, which had already created nearly 2.5 million refugees and internally displaced 6.5 million, the UN called on industrialised countries to share the burden of offering hospitality through a fixed quota system. The UK opted out of the system whilst hailing their acceptance of a moral responsibility by welcoming only 500 of the ‘most vulnerable’ Syrians. Given the state’s exclusionary character, what opportunities do other spaces in international politics offer by way of hospitality to migrants and refugees? Hospitality can take many different forms and have many diverse purposes. But wherever it occurs, the boundaries that enable it and make it possible are both created and unsettled via exercises of power and their resistance. Through modern examples including refugee camps, global cities, postcolonial states and Europe, as well as analysis of Derridean and Foucauldian concepts, Migration, Ethics and Power explores: The process and practice of hospitality The spaces that hospitality produces The intimate relationship between ethics and power This is a brilliantly contemporary text for students of politics, international relations and political geography.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Dan Bulley
Publisher : SAGE
Release : 2016-11-03
File : 228 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781473994423