Description: Further DetailsTitle: Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926–1963Condition: NewAuthor: Samson Kaunga NdanyiFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 179364926XEAN: 9781793649263ISBN: 9781793649263Publisher: Lexington BooksGenre: HistoryTopic: Social Sciences, Arts & Photography, Society & CultureRelease Date: 04/15/2024Description: In Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926–1963, the author argues against the colonial logic instigating that films made for African audiences in Kenya influenced them to embrace certain elements of western civilization but Africans had nothing to offer in return. The author frames this logic as unidirectional approach purporting that Africans were passive recipients of colonial programs. Contrary to this understanding, the author insists that African viewers were active participants in the discourse of cinema in Kenya. Employing unorthodox means to protest mediocre films devoid of basic elements of film production, African spectators forced the colonial government to reconsider the way it produced films. The author frames the reconsideration as bidirectional approach. Instructional cinema first emerged as a tool to “educate” and “modernize” Africans, but it transformed into a contestable space of cultural and political power, a space that both sides appropriated to negotiate power and actualize their abstract ideas. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 239mmItem Length: 160mmItem Width: 11mmItem Weight: 454gType: Communication StudiesRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 192
Title: Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 192
ISBN-10: 179364926X
EAN: 9781793649263
ISBN: 9781793649263
Genre: History
Topic: Society & Culture
Release Date: 04/15/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Name: Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963
Language: English
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 2024
Subject: Media Studies, Africa / Central, Film & Video
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 9.9 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Samson Kaunga Ndanyi
Subject Area: Art, Social Science, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
