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
Autor principal: Thompson, Katrina Daly, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Zimbabwe. > Broadcasting Services Act.
Social conditions.
Motion picture industry > Foreign influences
PERFORMING ARTS > Television > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
ART > Film & Video.
Cinema > Industrie > Zimbabwe > Influence etrangere.
Medias et langage > Aspect politique > Zimbabwe.
Cinema et television > Aspect social > Zimbabwe.
Motion picture industry > Zimbabwe > Foreign influences.
Mass media and language > Political aspects > Zimbabwe.
Motion pictures and television > Social aspects > Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe > Conditions sociales > 1980-
Zimbabwe > Social conditions > 1980-
Electronic books.
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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