Contemporary African screen worlds /
"Contemporary African Screen Worlds explores the ways in which African audiences engage with their media worlds as both producers and consumers. The essays, many of which are written by authors within Africa, address political-economic and cultural aspects of media production, emphasizing the m...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2025.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Contemporary African Screen Worlds explores the ways in which African audiences engage with their media worlds as both producers and consumers. The essays, many of which are written by authors within Africa, address political-economic and cultural aspects of media production, emphasizing the materialities of production and consumption, and engage both global platforms, such as Netflix and YouTube, and regional and local phenomena, such as Kenyan housemaids using film for self-therapy. Across the volume, the language of "screen worlds" focuses attention on the physical and emotional relationships which both viewers and makers have with screens. The collection thus describes a wide range of media practices and develops a conceptual framework for analyzing media production and consumption"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 356 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781478060413 1478060417 9781478094173 1478094176 |