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Tropical Dream Palaces

- Cinema in Colonial West Africa
Af: Odile Goerg Engelsk Hardback

Tropical Dream Palaces

- Cinema in Colonial West Africa
Af: Odile Goerg Engelsk Hardback
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Many studies focus on film in Africa. Few, however, study cinema as a leisure activity: one that has influenced several generations and opened up spaces to dream, discuss or contest. Movie theatres offered a break from the daily routine, as places of escape and of education. Cinema was also potentially subversive, offering an alternative to colonial discourse. ''Tropical Dream Palaces'' seeks to trace this history in a West African context: of broadening horizons on the one hand, and of censorship and control on the other. It fills a historiographic void, following cinema''s arrival in the region in the early twentieth century up until the Independence era, and also looking further afield to Central Africa and its different models. Goerg addresses questions of film distribution in colonial times; of screening venues, their implantation, spread and different categories; while also focusing on audiences, their gender or age; the acquisition of a film culture; and the impact of screening foreign images. Her book draws on extremely varied sources to paint a broad picture of this cinematographic landscape: archives, the accounts of African and European spectators or administrators, novels, autobiographies, the local press, interviews and iconography.
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Many studies focus on film in Africa. Few, however, study cinema as a leisure activity: one that has influenced several generations and opened up spaces to dream, discuss or contest. Movie theatres offered a break from the daily routine, as places of escape and of education. Cinema was also potentially subversive, offering an alternative to colonial discourse. ''Tropical Dream Palaces'' seeks to trace this history in a West African context: of broadening horizons on the one hand, and of censorship and control on the other. It fills a historiographic void, following cinema''s arrival in the region in the early twentieth century up until the Independence era, and also looking further afield to Central Africa and its different models. Goerg addresses questions of film distribution in colonial times; of screening venues, their implantation, spread and different categories; while also focusing on audiences, their gender or age; the acquisition of a film culture; and the impact of screening foreign images. Her book draws on extremely varied sources to paint a broad picture of this cinematographic landscape: archives, the accounts of African and European spectators or administrators, novels, autobiographies, the local press, interviews and iconography.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 208
ISBN-13: 9781787382053
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1787382052
Kategori: Kolonialisme og imperialisme
Udg. Dato: 16 jan 2020
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 230mm
Højde: 391mm
Forlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato: 16 jan 2020
Forfatter(e): Odile Goerg
Forfatter(e) Odile Goerg

Kategori Kolonialisme og imperialisme

ISBN-13 9781787382053

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 208

Udgave

Længde 15mm

Bredde 230mm

Højde 391mm

Udg. Dato 16 jan 2020

Oplagsdato 16 jan 2020

Forlag C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd