Dr Lindiwe Dovey
BA(HARVARD), PHD(CANTAB)
Overview
Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa
(Lecturer in African Film and Performance Arts)
Centre for Media and Film Studies
(Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies)
Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS)
(Member)
African film and video (particularly their intersection); filmic mediations of African performance arts (music, dance, theatre); literary adaptation in Africa; contemporary film theory and 'World Cinema'; exile/immigration and violence in relation to African screen media; structures of film production, distribution, and exhibition in Africa; use of African languages in film
Contact Details
- Name:
- Dr Lindiwe Dovey
- Email address:
- ld18@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4388
PhD Publications
PhD Conferences
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Interests / Disciplines
Teaching
Courses Taught
Research
Expertise
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Available for
- Radio
- Press
- Briefings
- Special Study Programmes
- Short Term Consultancy
- TV
- Long Term Consultancy
Regional Expertise
- Africa
Country Expertise
- South Africa
Languages
Publications
Authored Books
Dovey, Lindiwe (2009) African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen. New York: Columbia University Press.
Chapters in Books
Dovey, Lindiwe (2008) '"Eyes Wide Shut": Kubrick and the Representation of Gender.' In: Rhodes, Gary, (ed.), Stanley Kubrick: Essays on His Films and Legacy. Jefferson: McFarland.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2005) 'Politicising Adaptation: Re-historicising South African Literature through Fools.' In: Aragay, M., (ed.), Books in Motion. Adaptation, Intertextuality, Authorship. Rodopi, pp. 163-179.
Articles
Dovey, Lindiwe (2009) 'Subjects of exile: Alienation in Francophone West African cinema.' International Journal of Francophone Studies .
Dovey, Lindiwe (2007) 'Redeeming Features: From 'Tsotsi' (1980) to 'Tsotsi' (2006).' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 19 (2). pp. 143-164.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2005) 'South African Cinema in Exile.' Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 41 (2). pp. 189-199.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2002) 'Towards an Art of Adaptation: Film and the New Criticism-as-Creation.' Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 2 . pp. 51-61.
Book Reviews
Dovey, Lindiwe (2009) Review of 'The Devil you Dance With: Film Culture in the New South Africa'. Cineaste, 35 (1). pp. 80-82.
