Africa: Taking Tarzan to Tusk

2 August 2016
analysis

I teach a graduate seminar at Columbia University we call: "Postcolonialism: Film, Fiction, History, Theory", in which I have included, since its 1999 publication, Adam Hochschild's mesmerising book, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa.

Imagine my surprise a few days ago while scrolling down my newsfeed to see the same Adam Hochschild had written a film review on the new version of the old Tarzan films, The Legend of Tarzan.

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