Zimbabwe''s Cinematic Arts - Language, Power, Identity

Informationen zum Autor Katrina Daly Thompson is Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics and an affiliated faculty member in African Studies, the Center for the Study of Women, and Islamic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Klappentext She offers a unique understanding of how media reflect and contribute to Zimbabwean culture, language, and ethnicity. Zusammenfassung Offers a unique understanding of how media reflect and contribute to Zimbabwean culture! language! and ethnicity Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Cultural Identity in Discourse 1. A Crisis of Representation 2. Cinematic Arts before the 2001 Broadcasting Services Act: Two Decades of Trying to Build a Nation 3. Authorship and Identities: What Makes a Film "Local"? 4. Changing the Channel: Using the Foreign to Critique the Local 5. Power, Citizenship, and Local Content: A Critical Reading of the Broadcasting Services Act 6. Language as a Form of Social Change: Public Debate in Local Languages Conclusion: Possibilities for Democratic Change Notes Bibliography Filmography Index

Product details

• Authors: Katrina Thompson, Katrina Daly Thompson, Thompson Katrina Daly
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.12.2012
• EAN: 9780253006462
• ISBN: 978-0-253-00646-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, Pop Arts / Pop Culture