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Author Thompson, Katrina Daly, 1975-

Title Zimbabwe's cinematic arts [electronic resource] : language, power, identity / Katrina Daly Thompson.

Imprint Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.

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Description xii, 237 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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-
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780253006462 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253006516 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780253006561 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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