The Great White Man of Lambaréné explained
The Great White Man of Lambaréné |
Native Name: | Le grand blanc de Lambaréné |
Director: | Bassek Ba Kobhio |
Producer: | Bassek Ba Kobhio |
Runtime: | 94 minutes |
Language: | French |
The Great White Man of Lambaréné (Le grand blanc de Lambaréné) is a 1995 biopic of Albert Schweitzer by the Cameroonian filmmaker Bassek Ba Kobhio.[1] [2] The film, made on the site of Schweitzer's hospital at Lambaréné on the Ogooué River in Gabon, has received critical attention as a post-colonial re-interrogation of the myth of Schweitzer.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Notes and References
- Book: Deanne Schultz. Filmography of World History. https://books.google.com/books?id=Zd2CVhbGWNAC&pg=PA75. 2007. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-32681-3. 75–6. The Great White Man of Lambaréné / Le grand blanc de Lambaréné.
- Book: Sharon A. Russell. Guide to African Cinema. 1998. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-29621-5. 70–73.
- Book: Curtius, Anny Dominique. James T. Day. Translation in French and Francophone Literature and Film. https://books.google.com/books?id=NFcuoQ2K__MC&pg=PA115. 2009. Rodopi. 978-90-420-2649-0. 115–130. The Great White Man of Lambaréné by Bassek ba Kobhio: When translating a colonial mentality loses its meaning.
- Book: K. Martial Frindéthié. Francophone African Cinema: History, Culture, Politics and Theory. https://books.google.com/books?id=C3suCpMEC4UC&pg=PA7. 2014. McFarland. 978-0-7864-5356-6. 7–21. 'There Is No Conversation Here, My Boy': Spectral Returns of Fanon and Hegel in Bassek ba Kobhio's The Great White Man of Lambaréné.
- Book: Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re/Constructions in the Cinema. 2003. SUNY Press. 978-0-7914-5628-6. 144–.
- Foster, Gwendolyn. 'The Post-Colonial Vision of the 'Great White' of Lambarene', Popular Culture Review, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Summer 2002), pp.113-19
- Book: Vincent F. Rocchio. Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction Of Afro-american Culture. https://books.google.com/books?id=MUhaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT260. 2018. Taylor & Francis. 978-0-429-97737-4. 260–. The Great White Man of Lambarene and the Limits of Representation.