SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Dovey, Lindiwe (2015) Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals. New York, NY; London: Palgrave Macmillan. (Framing Film Festivals)

Dovey, Lindiwe (2009) African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen. New York: Columbia University Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Dovey, Lindiwe, Taylor-Jones, Kate and Thomas-Parr, Georgia, eds. (2024) Global Screen Worlds: Conversations Across Cinema Cultures. London: Bloomsbury. (Forthcoming)

Dovey, Lindiwe, Agina, Anulika and Thomas, Mike, eds. (2023) Contemporary African Screen Worlds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. (Forthcoming)

Dovey, Lindiwe and Taylor-Jones, Kate, eds. (2021) The Asian-African Film Connection: Cross-Cultural Imaginaries, Shared Sources, Parallel Histories. UK: Open Library of Humanities. (Open Screens)

Dovey, Lindiwe, ed. (2010) Journal of African Cultural Studies. Special issue: African film and video: pleasure, politics, performance, v.22 (1). Abingdon: Taylor and Francis.

Dovey, Lindiwe, ed. (2010) Journal of African Media Studies. Volume 2 Issue 1. Bristol: Intellect.

Book Chapters

Lu, Xiaoning (2024) 'Parallel Tracks: Documenting the TAZARA in the Age of the Belt and Road Initiative.' In: Dovey, Lindiwe, Kate, Taylor-Jones and Georgia, Thomas-Parr, (eds.), Global Screen Worlds. London: Bloomsbury. (Forthcoming)

Dovey, Lindiwe (2024) 'Transforming Documentary Film Cultures in East Africa: Judy Kibinge and Docubox.' In: Warren, Shilyh and Moradiyan-Rizi, Najmeh, (eds.), Women and Global Documentary: Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century. London: Bloomsbury. (World Cinema) (Forthcoming)

Dovey, Lindiwe and Sendra Fernandez, Estrella (2023) 'Toward Decolonized Film Festival Worlds.' In: de Valck, Marijke and Damiens, Antoine, (eds.), Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 269-289. (Framing Film Festivals)

Dovey, Lindiwe (2020) 'Listening Between the Images: African Filmmakers’ Take on the Soviet Union, Soviet Filmmakers’ Take on Africa.' In: Lu, Xiaoning, (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sendra Fernandez, Estrella (2020) 'Toolkit 5: Senegal on the Screen.' In: Dovey, Lindiwe, (ed.), Screen Worlds Toolkits. London: Screen Worlds, pp. 1-10.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2018) 'Towards Alternative Histories and Herstories of African Filmmaking: From Bricolage to the ‘Curatorial Turn’ in African Film Scholarship.' In: Harrow, Kenneth W. and Garritano, Carmela, (eds.), Companion to African Cinema. Oxford: Wiley. (Wiley Blackwell companions to national cinemas)

Dovey, Lindiwe (2015) ''Bergman in Uganda': Ugandan Veejays, Swedish Pirates, and the Political Value of Live Adaptation.' In: Hassler-Forest, Dan and Nicklas, Pascal, (eds.), The Politics of Adaptation: Media Convergence and Ideology. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 99-113.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2014) 'Fools (Ramadan Suleman, 1997): or, the importance of being able to tell 'messy' stories at the 'wrong' time.' In: Bisschoff, Lizelle and Murphy, David, (eds.), Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema. London: Legenda, pp. 107-112.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2012) 'Fidelity, Simultaneity and the 'Remaking' of Adaptation Studies.' In: Nicklas, Pascal and Lindner, Oliver, (eds.), Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation: Literature, Film, and the Arts. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 162-185.

Dovey, Lindiwe and Singer, Christine (2012) 'Representations of African childhood in conflict and post-conflict contexts: Johnny Mad Dog, Ezra, and Sleepwalking Land.' In: Olson, Debbie and Scahill, Andrew, (eds.), Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema. Plymouth: Lexington Books, pp. 151-174.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2012) 'Storytelling in Contemporary African Fiction Film and Video.' In: Khatib, Lina, (ed.), Storytelling in World Cinemas Volume 1. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 89-103.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2011) 'Film and Postcolonial Writing.' In: Quayson, Ato, (ed.), The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1039-1067.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2010) 'Directors' Cut: In Defence of African Film Festivals outside Africa.' In: Iordanova, Dina and Cheung, Ruby, (eds.), Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities. St. Andrews: St Andrews Film Studies, pp. 45-73.

Dovey, Lindiwe and Dovey, Teresa (2010) 'Coetzee on Film.' In: Bradshaw, Graham and Neill, Michael, (eds.), J.M. Coetzee's Austerities. Surrey, England; Burlington, USA: Ashgate, pp. 57-78.

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. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 163-179.

Journal Article

Dovey, Lindiwe (2023) 'Intermediality in Academia: Creative Research through Film.' Arts, 12 (4). p. 169.

Dovey, Lindiwe, Mangalanayagam, Nina and Mistry, Jyoti (2022) 'Perspectives: a round-table discussion on decolonial pedagogies.' Film Education Journal, 5 (1). pp. 24-33.

Dovey, Lindiwe and Taylor-Jones, Kate (2021) 'The Asian-African Film Connection: Cross-Cultural Imaginaries, Shared Sources, Parallel Histories (introduction to special issue of same name).' Open Screens, 4 (1).

Dovey, Lindiwe (2020) 'On Teaching and Being Taught: Reflections on Decolonising Pedagogy.' PARSE, 11. pp. 1-26.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2018) 'Entertaining Africans: Creative Innovation in the (Internet) Television Space.' Media Industries, 5 (2). pp. 93-110.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2016) 'On the Matter of Fiction: An Approach to the Marginalization of African Film Studies in the Global Academy.' Black Camera, 7 (2). pp. 159-173.

Dovey, Lindiwe and Olivieri, Federico (2015) 'Festivals and the politics of space and mobility: the Tarifa/Cordoba African Film Festival (FCAT) as nomadic heterotopia.' Screen, 56 (1). pp. 142-148.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2015) 'Through the Eye of a Film Festival: Toward a Curatorial and Spectator Centered Approach to the Study of African Screen Media.' Cinema Journal, 54 (2). pp. 126-132.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2014) 'Curating Africa: Teaching African Film through the Lens of Film Festivals.' Scope: An online journal of film and television studies, 26. pp. 6-9.

Dovey, Lindiwe, McNamara, Joshua and Olivieri, Federico (2013) '"From, by, for": Nairobi's Slum Film Festival, film festival studies, and the practices of development.' Jump Cut, 55.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2013) 'Film Africa 2012: Reflections.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 25 (1). pp. 122-127.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2012) 'Report on Film Africa: Celebrating African Cinema, 3-13 November 2011.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 24 (1). pp. 113-120.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2012) 'New Looks: The Rise of African Women Filmmakers.' Feminist Africa, 16. pp. 18-36.

Dovey, Lindiwe and Impey, Angela (2010) ''African Jim': sound, politics, and pleasure in early 'black' South African cinema.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 22 (1). pp. 57-73.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2010) 'Editorial: 'African film and video: pleasure, politics, performance'.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 22 (1). pp. 1-6.

Dovey, Lindiwe and Davies, James (2010) 'Bizet in Khayelitsha: U-Carmen eKhayelitsha as audio-visual transculturation.' Journal of African Media Studies, 2 (1). pp. 39-53.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2010) 'Editorial: Towards interpretation of screen media in Africa.' Journal of African Media Studies, 2 (1). pp. 3-7.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2009) 'Subjects of exile: Alienation in Francophone West African cinema.' International Journal of Francophone Studies, 12 (1). pp. 55-75.

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 (2011) 'Review of "Men in African Film and Fiction" edited by Lahoucine Ouzgane.' English in Africa, 38 (3). pp. 147-152.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2009) 'Review of 'The Devil you Dance With: Film Culture in the New South Africa'.' Cineaste, 35 (1). pp. 80-82.

Shows/Exhibitions

Dovey, Lindiwe (2012) Film Africa 2012. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Dovey, Lindiwe (2011) Film Africa 2011: Celebrating African Cinema. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Dovey, Lindiwe (2009) Cambridge African Film Festival 2009. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Dovey, Lindiwe and Thomas, Michael W. (2020) Reflections on Creating Film Toolkits to Decolonise Academia and the Film Industry. Viewfinder Magazine [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Films

Dovey, Lindiwe (2023) From One Woman to Another: The Screen Worlds of Bongiwe Selane. Screen Worlds. Available from https://screenworlds.org/films/from-one-woman-to-a....

Dovey, Lindiwe (2023) Out of the Box: The Screen Worlds of Judy Kibinge. Screen Worlds. Available from https://screenworlds.org/films/out-of-the-box-the-....

Other

Dovey, Lindiwe (2020) 'Screen Worlds Toolkit: The Story of African Film.' London: Screen Worlds.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2013) 'Interview with Davey Frankel: A marathon, not a sprint - the journey of The Athlete towards being seen.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 25 (1). pp. 105-106.

Dovey, Lindiwe (2013) 'Interview with Rasselas Lakew.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 25 (1). pp. 107-113.