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Aaron, Michele. "Looking on and Looking the Other Way: Hotel Rwanda (2004) and the Racialised Ethics of Spectatorship." Film Moments: Criticism, History, Theory. Ed. Tom Brown and James Walters. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 152-56.

Adams, Sam. “Safe at Home.” Philadelphia City Paper 6 January 2005. http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2005-01-06/movies.shtml

Adhikari, Mohamed. "Hotel Rwanda: Too Much Heroism, Too Little History -- or Horror?" Black and White in Colour: African History on Screen. Ed. Vivian Bickford-Smith and Richard Mendelsohn. Athens: Ohio UP, 2007. 279-99.

Arendt, Paul. “Hotel Rwanda.” BBC 20 February 2005. http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2005/02/17/hotel_rwanda_2005_review.shtml

Ashuntantang J. "Hollywood's Representations of Human Rights: The Case of Terry George's Hotel Rwanda." Hollywood's Africa after 1994. Ed. Maryellen Higgins. Athens: Ohio UP, 2012. 54-67.

Baker, Tom. “The understated horror of 'Rwanda.'” Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) 12 January 2006: 7.

Bashir, Halima. Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur. New York: One World Ballantine Books, 2008.

Bibliography of the Rwandan Genocide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_the_Rwandan_Genocide

Brickford-Smith, Vivian, and Richard Mendelsohn. Black + White in Colour: African History on Screen. Athens: Ohio UP, 2007.

Burr, Ty. “Cheadle Brings Quiet Power to ‘Rwanda.’” Boston Globe 7 January 2005. http://www.boston.com/movies/display?display=movie&id=7112

Carr, Budd, and Nora Felder. Hotel Rwanda: Music from the Film. New York: Commotion Records, 2005.

Children of Rwanda's Genocide. Photographs by Vanessa Vick. http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/africa/index-rwanda-children.html

Chiwengo, Ngwarsungu. "When Wounds and Corpses Fail to Speak: Narratives of Violence and Rape in Congo (DRC)." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28.1 (2008): 78-92.

Christopher, James. “Hotel Rwanda.” The Times (London) 24 February 2005. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article517971.ece

The Commemoration of the 18th Anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide. http://www.au.int/en/content/commemoration-18th-anniversary-rwanda-genocide

Cooper, Rand Richards. "Underdogs: Hotel Rwanda and Million Dollar Baby." Commonweal 132.2 (2005): 30-32.

Courtemanche, Gil. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2003.

Cowley, Jason. "Rebirth of a Nation." The Observer 26 February 2005. http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/feb/27/features.review

Dallaire, Roméo. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda. New York: DaCapo, 2004.

Denby, David. “High Rollers; ‘The Aviator,’ ‘Million Dollar Baby,’ ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ " New Yorker 20 December, 2004. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/12/20/041220crci_cinema

Des Forges, Alison. “Leave None to Tell the Story.” New York: Human Rights Watch, 1999.

Destexhe, Alain. Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth Century. Washington Square: New York UP, 1995.

The Diary of Immaculée. Carlsbad: Hay House, Inc., 2006.

Ebert, Roger. “Hotel Rwanda.” Chicago Sun-Times 22 December 2004. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041221/REVIEWS/41213001/1023

Eltringham, Nigel. Accounting for Horror: Post-Genocide Debates in Rwanda . Sterling: Pluto Press, 2004.

English, Bella. “’Ordinary Man’ Recounts Extraordinary Actions.” Boston Globe 17 April 2006. http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2006/04/17/ordinary_man_recounts_extraordinary_actions/

Evans, Martha, and Ian Glenn. "'TIA-This Is Africa': Afropessimism in Twenty-First-Century Narrative Film." Black Camera 2.1 (2010): 14-35.

Fein, Helen, ed. Genocide Watch. New Haven: Yale UP, 1992.

Ferroggiaro, William. "The U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994: Information, Intelligence and the U.S. Response." http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB117/index.htm

Ferroggiaro, William. "The U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994: The Assassination of the Presidents and the Beginning of the 'Apocalypse.'" http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB119/index.htm

Ferroggiaro, William. "The US and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994: Evidence of Inaction." http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB53/index.html

The Few Who Stayed - Defying Genocide in Rwanda http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/rwanda/index.html

Forsaken Cries: The Story of Rwanda. Washington: Amnesty International USA, 1997.

French, Philip. "Schindler in Rwanda." The Observer 26 February 2005. http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/feb/27/philipfrench

Gacaca, Living Together Again in Rwanda? Dir. Anne Aghion. First Run/Icarus Films, 2002.

Genocide in Rwanda. United Human Rights Council. http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/genocide_in_rwanda.htm

Genocide Watch: The International Campaign to End Genocide http://www.genocidewatch.org/

Genocide: From Biblical Times through the Ages. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2001.

George, Terry, and Keir Pearson. Hotel Rwanda: Bringing the True Story of an African Hero to Film. New York: Newmarket Press, 2005.

George, Terry. "Smearing a Hero: Sad Revisionism Over 'Hotel Rwanda'." Washington Post 10 May 2006.

Ghosts of Rwanda. Dir: Greg Barker. Frontline. PBS, 1999.

Ghosts of Rwanda http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ghosts/

Glover, Jonathan D. "Genocide, Human Rights, and the Politics Of Memorialization: Hotel Rwanda And Africa's World War." South Atlantic Review 75.2 (2010): 95-111.

God sleeps in Rwanda. New York: Women Make Movies, 2004.

A Good Man in Hell: General Roméo Dallaire and the Rwanda Genocide. Linda Kenyon, Jerry Fowler, et al. Washington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2003.

Gourevitch, Philip. We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families -- stories from Rwanda. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998.

Harrow, Kenneth W. "'Un train peut en cacher un autre': Narrating the Rwandan Genocide and Hotel Rwanda." Research in African Literatures 36.4 (2005): 223-32.

Hatzfeld, Jean. Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

Härting, Heike. "Global Humanitarianism, Race, and the Spectacle of the African Corpse in Current Western Representations of the Rwandan Genocide." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 28.1 (2008): 61-77.

Henninger, Daniel. "Wonder Land: 'Hotel Rwanda' Forces a Look At Mass Murder." Wall Street Journal 25 February 2005: A18.

Holden, Stephen. “Holding a Moral Center as Civilization Fell.” New York Times 22 December 2004. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E7DC1030F931A15751C1A9629C8B63

Hornaday, Ann. “Room at the Inn; 'Hotel Rwanda' Heralds the Triumph of One Man's Decency.” Washington Post 7 January 2005. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55029-2005Jan6.html

“Hotel Rwanda.” Wikipedia.org. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Rwanda

Human Rights Watch Report, 1999. http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/1999/rwanda/

In the tall grass [inside the citizen-based justice system Gacaca] Los Angeles: Choices, Inc., 2006.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda http://69.94.11.53/

International Fund for Rwanda http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2005/iha1031.doc.htm

Jaar, Alfredo. Let There be Light: The Rwanda Project 1994-1998. Spain: Actar, 1998.

James, Caryn. “Turning African Danger into Safe Entertainment.” New York Times 21 September, 2005. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/21/movies/21war.html

Katz, Lee Michael. "The Man Behind the Movie -- Paul Rusesabagina, the real-life Hotel Rwanda manager, discusses genocide in Africa." National Journal 38.16 (2006): 50-51.

Keane, Fergal. Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey. New York: Penguin Books, 1995.

Keepers of Memory. Eric Kabera, James Seligman, et al. Beverly Hills: Choices, 2005.

Keepers of Memory. Beverly Hills: Choices, 2005.

Kilpi, Harri. "The Landscape's Lie: Class, Economy, and Ecology in Hotel Rwanda." Framing the World: Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film. Ed. Paula Willoquet-Maricondi. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2010. 135-53.

Kirkland, Bruce. “Heartbreak Hotel; Movie Docs Examine the Horror of Rwandan Genocide.” Toronto Sun 11 April 2005: 45.

Leibowittz, Ed. “The Genocide and the Box Office: Africa's Sequel.” New York Times 10 April, 2005. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E5D91F3FF933A25757C0A9639C8B63

Magubane, Zine. "Saviors and Survivors: Western Passivity, African Resistance, and the Politics of Genocide in Hotel Rwanda (2004)." Through a Lens Darkly: Films of Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Atrocities. Ed. John J. Michalczyk et al. New York: Peter Lang, 2013. 220-224.

Mamdani, Mahmood. When Victims Become Killers. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001.

Mann, Michael. The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing. New York: Cambridge UP, 2005.

Marlowe, Jen. Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival. New York: Nation Books, 2006.

Mboti, Nyasha. "To Show the World as It Is, or as It Is Not: The Gaze of Hollywood Films about Africa." African Identities 8.4 (2010): 317-32.

McClain, Ruth. "Using Film Media as Visual Text for Studying the Rwandan Genocide." Exploring African Life and Literature: Novel Guides to Promote Socially Responsive Learning. Ed. Jacqueline N. Glasgow, etal. Newark: International Reading Association, 2007. 293-307.

Melvern, L. R. A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide. New York, St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

Melvern, Linda. "Hotel Rwanda -- Without the Hollywood Ending." theguardian.com 17 November 2011. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/nov/17/hotel-rwanda-hollywood-ending

Melvern, Linda. Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide. New York: Verso, 2004.

Merlino, Doug. "After the Genocide." December 2003. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/fellows/rwanda1103/

Miller, Nickole. "Projecting Hope and Making Reel Change in Africa." Human Rights Quarterly 30.3 (2008): 827-38.

Motskin, Yon. “Hotel Rwanda.” Creative Screenwriting 12.1 (2005): 74-75.

Nadler, Arie, Thomas E. Malloy, and Jeffrey D. Fisher. The Social Psychology of Intergroup Reconciliation. New York: Oxford UP, 2008.

Ndahiro, Alfred, and Privat Rutazibwa. Hotel Rwanda, or, The Tutsi Genocide as seen by Hollywood. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2008.

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Nzabatsinda, Anthere. "Hotel Rwanda." Research in African Literatures 36.4 (2005): 233-36.

The Office of the United Nations High Comissionar for Refugees in Rwanda http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,UNHCR,,RWA,456d621e2,,0.html

Omaar, Rakiya, and Alex de Waal. African Rights: Rwanda, Death, Despair and Defiance. London: African Rights, 1995.

“PanAfrica; Hotel Rwanda Challenges Africa.” [The East African] Africa News 14 March 2005.

Peress, Gilles. The Silence. New York: Scalo Publishers, 1995.

Pottier, Johan. Re-Imagining Rwanda: Conflict, Survival and Disinformation in the Late Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge UP, 2002.

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Rexroat, Julianne A. “Read Our History: Postcolonial Identity in Hotel Rwanda.” Thesis: Arizona State University, 2006.

Rickey, Carrie. “Running a hotel, and a refuge from death.” Philadelphia Inquirer 7 January 2005. http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/movies/16114562.html

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Rusesabagina, Paul, with Tom Zoellner. An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography. New York: Penguin Group, 2006.

Rusesabagina, Paul. "Rusesabagina Responds to Rwandan Government Book on Hotel Rwanda. EUX.TV. That's "article [cap I] in the link) http://www.eux.tv/article/.aspx?articleId=20114

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“Rwanda; Why All This Fuss Over 'Hotel Rwanda'?” [The Nation] Africa News 5 April 2008.

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Uraizee, Joya. "Darkening the Gaze: Representing Ethnic Conflict in Alfredo Jaar's Let There Be Light and Terry George's Hotel Rwanda." In the Jaws of the Leviathan: Genocide Fiction and Film. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi. "Exploring the Communicative Function of Light, Sound and Colour in Hotel Rwanda." Journal of African Cinemas 3.1 (2011): 43-49.

Williams, Randall. "A Duty to Intervene: On the Cinematic Constitution of Subjects for Empire in Hotel Rwanda." The Divided World: Human Rights and Its Violence. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2010.

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