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Tropical Dream Palaces: Cinema in Colonial West Africa

Tropical Dream Palaces: Cinema in Colonial West Africa - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Odile GoergPublish date:3/1/2020Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190089078ISBN-10:190089075UPC:9780190089078Book Category:History, Social Science, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Africa, Media Studies, FilmBook Topic:WestSize:10.00 x 5.60 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCFRDKCHFB
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190089078ISBN-10:190089075UPC:9780190089078Book Category:History, Social Science, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Africa, Media Studies, FilmBook Topic:WestSize:10.00 x 5.60 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCFRDKCHFB
Odile Goerg is Full Professor of Modern African History at CESSMA, Université Paris Diderot. She specialises in socio-economic history in the urban setting. Her present research focuses on leisure and culture, especially cinema, a topic on which she has published numerous articles.
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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