Reel pleasures : cinema audiences and entrepreneurs in twentieth-century urban Tanzania / Laura Fair.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fair, Laura, author.

Series:

New African histories series.

New African Histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--Tanzania.

Motion picture industry.

Motion picture audiences--Social aspects--Tanzania.

Motion picture audiences.

Motion picture theaters--Tanzania.

Motion picture theaters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Reel Pleasures brings the world of African moviehouses and the publics they engendered to life, revealing how local fans creatively reworked global media--from Indian melodrama to Italian westerns, kung fu, and blaxploitation films--to speak to local dreams and desires

Contents:

Intro

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

A Note on Usage

Introduction

1. Building Business and Building Community: The Exhibition and Distribution Industries in Tanzania, 1900s-50s

2. The Men Who Made the Movies Run

3. Making Love in the Indian Ocean: Hindi Films and Zanzibari Audiences in the 1950s

4. Global Films and Local Reception: Audience Preferences, 1950s-80s

5. Cinemas, Cities, and Audiences: Cultural Geographies and Social Difference at the Show

6. Drive-In Socialism: Debating Modernities and Development in Dar es Salaam

7. The Independence Generation Goes to the Show, 1960s-80s

8. The Political Economy of Cinema, 1960s-80s

Epilogue. A New World: Transformations in Mediascapes, the 1990s and Beyond

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780821446119

0821446118

OCLC:

1015309743