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16 Popular Culture Review reverential, holier-than-thou, high-toned, boring pastiche of a film, one thing is certain: Hollywood will not give up on making cinematic meditations about bored, rich, yet soul-searching and sensitive, white people, questing for fulfillment and a new life among the photogenic landscape of Kenya and Africa. Cameron University Richard A. Voeltz Notes 1. Quote from dust jacket of VHS tape of Trader Horn. MGM/UA Home Entertainment and Turner Entertainment, 1994. 2. Peter Davis, In Darkest Hollywood, Exploring the Jungles of Cinema's South Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1996, 15-16. 3. Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, HalliwelVs Film Guide. Fourth Edition, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1983, 381. 4. See Davis, 16-17, for a description of the 1937 film King Solomon's Mines. There have been numerous cinematic treatments of the story. 5. Christine Pittel, “Into Africa”, Movieline. October 2001, 38. 6. Ibid., 38. Blixen quote, 38. 7. For a summary of this colonial nostalgia see Richard A. Voeltz, “The Ways We Use the Past: The Historical Facsimile of the Banana Republic Travel and Safari Company,” Connecticut Review, Vol. XIII, No. 1, Spring 1991,27-32. 8. Bruce Kirkland, “Cheer for lions in I Dreamed of Africa,” http://www.canoe.ca/JamMoviesReviewsI/idreamedofafrica_kirkland.html. 9. Quotes taken from http://www.rottentomatoes.com/rn/IDreamedofAfrica-1096837/. 10. Roger Ebert, “I Dreamed of Africa,” http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2000/05/050502.html. 11. Erin Oke, “I Dreamed of Africa,” May 4, 2000, http://www.exclaim.ca/index.asp?layid=22&csid 1=205. 12. Kenneth Turan, “I Dreamed of Africa-A Dream of Africa, Indeed,” May 5, 2000, http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/search.html. 13. “I Dreamed of Africa,” http://www.haroonline.com/movies/i_dreamed_of_africa.html. 14. Brenda Sokolowski, “I Dreamed of Africa,” May 11-17, 2000. Vol. 9, Ed. 19, http://www.anchoragepress.com/archives/document3634.html. 15. Wesley Morris, “Safari fashion a big part of “I Dreamed,” May 5, 2000. http://www.sfgate.com/search/. 16. Gabe Rodriguez and Esther Melsha, “I Dreamed of Africa,” Christian Spotlight on the Movies, http://christiananswers.net/spotlight/movies/2000/idreamedofafrica.html. 17. “Bury my heart in Kenya,” an interview with Kuki Kullmann, April 18, 1999, http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/l 999/04/18/lifestyle/life04.htm. 18. Ibid. 19. Ibid. 20. Pittel, 37. 21. “I Dreamed of Africa...,” Sunday September 1, 2002, http://www.infohub.com/TRAVEL/SIT/sit_pages/7192.html.