Zimbabwe's cinematic arts language, power, identity / [electronic resource] :
Katrina Daly Thompson.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
- xii, 237 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Cultural identity in discourse -- A crisis of representation -- Cinematic arts before the 2001 Broadcasting Services Act: two decades of trying to build a nation -- Authorship and identities: what makes a film "local"? -- Changing the channel: using the foreign to critique the local -- Power, citizenship, and local content: a critical reading of the Broadcasting Services Act -- Language as a form of social change: public debate in local languages -- Conclusion: Possibilities for democratic change.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Zimbabwe. Broadcasting Services Act.
Motion pictures and television--Social aspects--Zimbabwe. Mass media and language--Political aspects--Zimbabwe. Motion picture industry--Foreign influences.--Zimbabwe