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.

Television broadcasting--Social aspects--Andes Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Set against the background of BoliviaÕs prominent urban festival parades and the countryÕs recent appearance on the front lines of antiglobalization 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 countryÕs indigenous video movement.At the heart of Jeff D. HimpeleÕs 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 socia

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Arenas of Circulation and Ethnographic Circuits; PART I. THE CINEMASCAPE AND THE PUBLICS OF CIRCULATION; 1 Film Distribution as Media: Mapping the Urban Imaginary; 2 Assembling the Cinemascape: Tracking Circulation, Fixing Difference; PART II. CINEMA AND THE SOCIAL IMAGINATION OF INDIGENISM; 3 The Visible Nation: Excavating the Past, Projecting the Future; 4 Fantasies of Modernity: The Social Imaginaries of Revolutionary Films; PART III. POPULAR PUBLICS AND THE TELEVISUAL PUBLIC SPHERE

5 Reality Affects: Cultural Strategies and the Televisual Public Sphere6 Indexical Binds: The Televisual Production of Popular Publics; Conclusion: Popularizing Indigenism, Indigenizing the Popular; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

0-8166-5371-2

OCLC:

437223490