Drama for development : cultural translation and social change / edited by Andrew Skuse, Marie Gillespie, Gerry Power.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Skuse, Andrew, 1964-

Gillespie, Marie, 1953-

Power, Gerry, 1960-

BBC World Service Trust.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercultural communication.

Mass media in community development.

Cultural pluralism.

Social change.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2011.

Summary:

Over the last decade, the BBC World Service Trust has been involved in projects intended to link the power of drama to development goals. This work, edited by Skuse (anthropology, U. of Adelaide, Australia), Gillespie (sociology, The Open U., UK), and Power (managing director of InterMedia, a media research and consulting firm based in the UK) investigates, from creation to conception, the drama for development work of the BBC WST and their partners. Drawing from the anthropology of development, the anthropology of media, post-colonial studies, cultural studies, and media research, contributors critically assess practices of cultural translation involved in the television and radio productions of the BBC WST in Africa and Asia and consider their implications for entertainment-education theory and practice. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction: drama for development : cultural translation and social change / Andrew Skuse, Marie Gillespie, and Gerry Power

Re-framing drama for development / Andrew Skuse

Great expectations and creative evolution : the history of drama for development at the bbc world service trust / Caroline Sugg and Gerry Power

Audience research in drama for development : a contact zone of translation and transnational knowledge production / Gerry Power

"Creative tensions" : audience research and the representational challenge of dramatising opium substitution in afghanistan / Andrew Skuse

Considering men, masculinity, and drama / Charlotte Lapsansky and Joyee S. Chatterjee

Telling other people's stories : cultural translation in drama for development / Emily LeRoux-Rutledge, Gerry Power and Carol Morgan

Broadcasting "the state" : tribe, citizenship, and the politics of radio drama production in Afghanistan / Andrew Skuse and Marie Gillespie

Dramatising "new Nepal" / Andrew Skuse and Michael Wilmore

A dynamic encoding process : making the Cambodian "taste of life" drama / Lizz Frost Yocum

Jasoos vijay : self-efficacy, collective action, and social norms in the context of an HIV and AIDs television drama / Lauren B. Frank, Sonal Tickoo Chaudhuri, Anurudra Bhanot and Sheila T. Murphy

"Passport to love" : dramatising forced marriage between Pakistan and the Pakistani diaspora / Sadaf Rizvi

Urunana audiences at home and away : together "hand in hand"? / Helen M. Hintjens and Fortunee Bayisenge

Gossiping for change : dramatising "blood debt" in Afghanistan / Andrew Skuse and Marie Gillespie

Appendix 1: serial dramas produced by the bbc world service trust 1999-2010

Appendix 2: models of narrative structure.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

8132105915

9788132105916

OCLC:

706467189

Publisher Number:

99944357774