[PDF] Instructional Cinema And African Audiences In Colonial Kenya 1926 1963 eBook

Author : Samson Kaunga Ndanyi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1793649251

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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.

Author : Samson Kaunga Ndanyi
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781793649263

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This book argues that African film audiences in colonial Kenya were not passive recipients of British cultural programs created to "teach" and "civilize" them. Rather, they rejected mediocre films and actively participated in the cinema discourse that brought about changes in cinema production.

Author : Adebayo Oyebade
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 37,54 MB
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000825914

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This book introduces readers to the rich discipline of Africana Studies, reflecting on how it has developed over the last fifty years as an intellectual enterprise for knowledge production about Africa and the African diaspora. The African world has always had a wealth of indigenous knowledge systems, but for the greater part of the scholarly history, hegemonic Western epistemologies have denied the authenticity of African indigenous ways of knowing. The post-colonial era has seen steady and deliberate efforts to expand the frontiers of knowledge about black people and their societies, and to Africanize such bodies of knowledge in all fields of human endeavor. This book reflects on how the multidisciplinary discipline of Africana Studies has transformed and reinvented itself as it has sought to advance knowledge about the African world. The contributors consider the foundations of the discipline, its key theories and methods of knowledge production, and how it interacts with popular culture, Women’s Studies, and other area studies such as Ethnic and Afro-Latinix Studies. Bringing together rich insights from across history, religion, literature, art, sociology, and philosophy, this book will be an important read for students and researchers of Africa and Africana Studies.

Author : Glenn Reynolds
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476620547

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In recent decades historians and film scholars have intensified their study of colonial cinema in Africa. Yet the vastness of the continent, the number of European powers involved and irregular record keeping has made uncovering the connections between imagery, imperialism and indigenous peoples difficult. This volume takes up the challenge, tracing production and exhibition patterns to show how motion pictures were introduced on the continent during the "Scramble for Africa" and the subsequent era of consolidation. The author describes how early actualities, expeditionary footage, ethnographic documentaries and missionary films were made in the African interior and examines the rise of mass black spectatorship. While Africans in the first two decades of the 20th century were sidelined as cinema consumers because of colonial restrictions, social and political changes in the subsequent interwar period--wrought by large-scale mining in southern Africa--led to a rethinking of colonial film policy by missionaries, mining concerns and colonial officials. By World War II, cinema had come to black Africa.

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Harry Thuku (1970: 32), the doyen of Kenyan nationalism and founder of the first political party in that country, raised the issue of taxation and involuntary labour with the colonial administration and demanded that the government explain why 'young girls and women' worked with no pay under the supervision of tribal policemen when Winston Churchill had outlawed such practices. [...] The final scenes show the mother knitting with her daughter, the father reading his newspaper and smoking a pipe, the mother helping the sleepy daughter to bed, and father and son working together on a model aeroplane. [...] Eager to lessen, if not close, the existing gap in trust between the public and the police force, a gap that was increasingly widening in Africa following the clamour for independence that sparked wars of land and freedom - such as the Mau Mau war in Kenya and the Algerian civil war - the narrator quickly reminds viewers that 'the policeman is a friend of the people and he knows that they will alw. [...] The ignorance continued even in the face of Africans' agitation for 'equal pay for work of equal value'.13 Constituting the bulk of the labour force in the country, African workers in public and private spheres were routinely underpaid. [...] In passing, however, I should point out that the war occupied the minds of British officials in the colony and in London, including European settlers who feared for their lives and safety and asked the government to spare no resources in dealing with 'these thugs'.

Author : James McDonald Burns
Publisher : Ohio University Center for International Studies
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
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Burns (history, Clemson U.) examines the relationship between cinema and society in colonial Africa, with a particular focus on the colonial settler state of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He discusses several aspects including production, distribution, censorship, and audience reception. He analyzes seventy years of public discussion regarding the appropriate role of cinema in colonial society, the attempt by the colonial state to use film as an instrument of social and cultural hegemony, and ways in which the state lost its control over the medium. Source material for the study included official and unofficial written documents and scores of films at the National Archives in Harare, as well as interviews with both black and white filmmakers and African audience members. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9231004700

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The production and distribution of film and audiovisual works is one of the most dynamic growth sectors in the world. Thanks to digital technologies, production has been growing rapidly in Africa in recent years. For the first time, a complete mapping of the film and audiovisual industry in 54 States of the African continent is available, including quantitative and qualitative data and an analysis of their strengths and weaknesses at the continental and regional levels.The report proposes strategic recommendations for the development of the film and audiovisual sectors in Africa and invites policymakers, professional organizations, firms, filmmakers and artists to implement them in a concerted manner.

Author : Harold E. Raugh
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0810874679

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The Anglo-Zulu War was one of many colonial campaigns in which the British Army served as the instrument of British imperialism. The conflict, fought against a native adversary the British initially under-estimated, is remarkable for battles that included perhaps the most humiliating defeat in British military history-the Battle of Isandlwana, January 22, 1879-and one of its most heroic feats of martial arms-the defense of Rorke's Drift, January 22-23, 1879. While lasting only six months, it is one of the most examined, studied, and debated conflicts in Victorian military history. Anglo-Zulu War, 1879: A Selected Bibliography is a research guide and tool for identifying obscure publications and source materials in order to encourage continued original and thought-provoking contributions to this popular field of historical study. From the student or neophyte to the study of the Anglo-Zulu War, its battles, and its opponents to the more experienced historian or scholar, this selected bibliography is a must for anyone interested in the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War.

Author : Andrew W.M. Smith
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1911307746

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Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of ‘late colonial shift’ after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors together explore the crucial historical moments in which change was negotiated, compromises were made, and debates were staged. Three core themes guide the analysis: development, contingency and entanglement. The chapters consider the ways in which decolonization was governed and moderated by concerns about development and profit. A complementary focus on contingency allows deeper consideration of how colonial powers planned for ‘colonial futures’, and how divergent voices greeted the end of empire. Thinking about entanglements likewise stresses both the connections that existed between the British and French empires in Africa, and those that endured beyond the formal transfer of power.

Author : Paolo Bertella Farnetti
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 34,61 MB
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 152750414X

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The twentieth century saw a proliferation of media discourses on colonialism and, later, decolonisation. Newspapers, periodicals, films, radio and TV broadcasts contributed to the construction of the image of the African “Other” across the colonial world. In recent years, a growing body of literature has explored the role of these media in many colonial societies. As regards the Italian context, however, although several works have been published about the links between colonial culture and national identity, none have addressed the specific role of the media and their impact on collective memory (or lack thereof). This book fills that gap, providing a review of images and themes that have surfaced and resurfaced over time. The volume is divided into two sections, each organised around an underlying theme: while the first deals with visual memory and images from the cinema, radio, television and new media, the second addresses the role of the printed press, graphic novels and comics, photography and trading cards.