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

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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Main Author: Thompson, Katrina Daly, 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2012
Subjects:
Zimbabwe. > Broadcasting Services Act.
Motion pictures and television > Social aspects > Zimbabwe.
Mass media and language > Political aspects > Zimbabwe.
Motion picture industry > Zimbabwe > Foreign influences.
Zimbabwe > Social conditions > 1980-
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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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