The Great White Man of Lambaréné

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]

The Great White Man of Lambaréné
Le grand blanc de Lambaréné
Directed byBassek Ba Kobhio
Produced byBassek Ba Kobhio
Release date
  • 1995 (1995)
Running time
94 minutes
Countries
LanguageFrench

References edit

  1. ^ Deanne Schultz (2007). "The Great White Man of Lambaréné / Le grand blanc de Lambaréné". Filmography of World History. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 75–6. ISBN 978-0-313-32681-3.
  2. ^ Sharon A. Russell (1998). Guide to African Cinema. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 70–73. ISBN 978-0-313-29621-5.
  3. ^ Curtius, Anny Dominique (2009). "The Great White Man of Lambaréné by Bassek ba Kobhio: When translating a colonial mentality loses its meaning". In James T. Day (ed.). Translation in French and Francophone Literature and Film. Rodopi. pp. 115–130. ISBN 978-90-420-2649-0.
  4. ^ K. Martial Frindéthié (2014). "'There Is No Conversation Here, My Boy': Spectral Returns of Fanon and Hegel in Bassek ba Kobhio's The Great White Man of Lambaréné". Francophone African Cinema: History, Culture, Politics and Theory. McFarland. pp. 7–21. ISBN 978-0-7864-5356-6.
  5. ^ Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (2003). Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re/Constructions in the Cinema. SUNY Press. pp. 144–. ISBN 978-0-7914-5628-6.
  6. ^ Foster, Gwendolyn. 'The Post-Colonial Vision of the 'Great White' of Lambarene', Popular Culture Review, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Summer 2002), pp.113-19
  7. ^ Vincent F. Rocchio (2018). "The Great White Man of Lambarene and the Limits of Representation". Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction Of Afro-american Culture. Taylor & Francis. pp. 260–. ISBN 978-0-429-97737-4.

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