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Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963

Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963

Ndanyi, Samson Kaunga

Hardcover

African HistoryFilm & Video ArtGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1793649243
ISBN13: 9781793649249
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Mar 14 2022
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926-1963, the author argues against the colonial logic instigating that films made for African audiences in Kenya influenced them to embrace certain elements of western civilization but Africans had nothing to offer in return. The author frames this logic as unidirectional approach purporting that Africans were passive recipients of colonial programs. Contrary to this understanding, the author insists that African viewers were active participants in the discourse of cinema in Kenya. Employing unorthodox means to protest mediocre films devoid of basic elements of film production, African spectators forced the colonial government to reconsider the way it produced films. The author frames the reconsideration as bidirectional approach. Instructional cinema first emerged as a tool to educate and modernize Africans, but it transformed into a contestable space of cultural and political power, a space that both sides appropriated to negotiate power and actualize their abstract ideas.

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