Circuits of culture : media, politics, and indigenous identity in the Andes / Jeff D. Himpele.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Himpele, Jeffrey D., 1965-

Series:

Visible evidence ; v. 20.

Visible evidence ; v. 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Social aspects--Andes Region.

Motion pictures.

Television broadcasting--Social aspects--Andes Region.

Television broadcasting.

Television broadcasting--Social aspects.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

Andes Region.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2008]

Summary:

Set against the background of Bolivia's prominent urban festival parades and the country's recent appearance on the front lines of anti-globalization movements, Circuits of Culture is the first social analysis of Bolivian film and television, their circulation through the social and national landscape, and the emergence of the country's indigenous video movement. At the heart of Jeff D. Himpele's examination is an ethnography of the popular television program The Open Tribunal of the People. The indigenous and underrepresented majorities in La Paz have used the talk show to publicize their social problems and seek medical and legal assistance from the show's hosts and the political party they launched. Himpele studies the program in order to identify the possibilities of the mass media as a site for political discourse and as a means of social action. Charting as well the history of Bolivia's media culture, Himpele perceptively investigates cinematic media as sites for understanding the modernization of Bolivia, its social movements, and the formation of indigenous identities, and in doing so provides a new framework for exploring the circulation of culture as a way of creating publics and political movements and producing media.

Contents:

Introduction: Arenas of Circulation and Ethnographic Circuits 1

Part I The Cinemascape and the Publics of Circulation

1 Film Distribution as Media: Mapping the Urban Imaginary 41

2 Assembling the Cinemascape: Tracking Circulation, Fixing Difference 65

Part II Cinema and the Social Imagination of Indigenism

3 The Visible Nation: Excavating the Past, Projecting the Future 93

4 Fantasies of Modernity: The Social Imaginaries of Revolutionary Films 113

Part III Popular Publics and the Televisual Public Sphere

5 Reality Affects: Cultural Strategies and the Televisual Public Sphere 137

6 Indexical Binds: The Televisual Production of Popular Publics 164

Conclusion: Popularizing Indigenism, Indigenizing the Popular 186.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.

ISBN:

9780816639182

0816639183

9780816639199

0816639191

OCLC:

145396473

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