Cinema and Nation Formation in Tanzania

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

منو

" Cinema and Nation Formation in Tanzania "
Mona N. Mwakalinga

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1083626
Doc. No	:	LA127255
Call No	:	‭10.1163/26836408-0110102006‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Mona N. Mwakalinga
Title & Author	:	Cinema and Nation Formation in Tanzania [Article]\ Mona N. Mwakalinga
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Utafiti
Date	:	2015
Volume/ Issue Number	:	11/1-2
Page No	:	84–105
Abstract	:	Through a national cinema theoretical framework, this article interrogates how cinema aided the Tanzanian government in the invention of a national culture identity during the country’s nation-building phase of the 1960s and 1970s. It is argued that in its initial stage of nation formation after Independence, the government used cinema as an apparatus to construct a national identity that confirmed and adhered to the ruling class’s interests and idea of a nation. Thus by controlling how cinema was produced, distributed, and exhibited to the masses through the 1960s and 1970s, the government did not bring about unification of the people; rather it helped in solidifying the primacy of the government. The cinema produced by the government was a cheer leading cinema which provided no space for analysis of issues; further, it was a cinema that denied freedom of expression to its filmmakers and to its audiences.
Descriptor	:	National Building Project
Descriptor	:	national cinema
Descriptor	:	national identity
Descriptor	:	social engineering
Descriptor	:	Tanganyika African Nationalist Union (TANU)
Descriptor	:	Ujamaa
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/26836408-0110102006‬