Zimbabwe's cinematic arts : language, power, identity.

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This timely book reflects on discourses of identity that pervade local talk and texts in Zimbabwe, a nation beset by political and economic crisis. As she explores questions of culture that play out in broadly accessible local and foreign film and television, Katrina Daly Thompson shows how viewers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thompson, Katrina Daly, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Zimbabwe. > Broadcasting Services Act.
Broadcasting Services Act (Zimbabwe)
Since 1980
Motion pictures and television > Social aspects > Zimbabwe.
Mass media and language > Political aspects > Zimbabwe.
Motion picture industry > Zimbabwe > Foreign influences.
Cinéma et télévision > Aspect social > Zimbabwe.
Médias et langage > Aspect politique > Zimbabwe.
Cinéma > Industrie > Zimbabwe > Influence étrangère.
ART > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Television > General.
Motion picture industry > Foreign influences
Social conditions
Zimbabwe > Social conditions > 1980-
Zimbabwe > Conditions sociales > 1980-
Zimbabwe
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Cultural identity in discourse
  • A crisis of representation
  • Cinematic arts before the 2001 Broadcasting Services Act: two decades of trying to build a nation
  • Authorship and identities: what makes a film "local"?
  • Changing the channel: using the foreign to critique the local
  • Power, citizenship, and local content: a critical reading of the Broadcasting Services Act
  • Language as a form of social change: public debate in local languages
  • Conclusion: Possibilities for democratic change. Broadcasting Services Act: two decades of trying to build a nation
  • Authorship and identities: what makes a film "local"?
  • Changing the channel: using the foreign to critique the local
  • Power, citizenship, and local content: a critical reading of the Broadcasting Services Act
  • Language as a form of social change: public debate in local languages
  • Conclusion: Possibilities for democratic change.

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