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African Appropriations : Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media /
Why would a Hollywood film become a Nigerian video remake, a Tanzanian comic book, or a Congolese music video? Matthias Krings explores the myriad ways Africans respond to the relentless onslaught of global culture. He seeks out places where they have adapted pervasive cultural forms to their own pu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2015
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| Colección: | African expressive cultures.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments and preface
- Introduction
- The wicked major : embodying cultural difference
- Lance Spearman : the African James Bond
- Black Titanic : pirating the White Star liner
- Vice and videos : Kanywood under duress
- Dar 2 Lagos : Nollywood in Tanzania
- Branding bin Laden : the global "war on terror" on a local stage
- Master and mugu : orientalist mimicry and cybercrime
- "Crazy white men" : (un)doing difference in African popular music
- Coda.