Reimagining Kenyan cinema /

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Imprint:New York, NY : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., [2022]
Description:xviii, 216 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12913131
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Other authors / contributors:Kebaya, Charles, editor.
Odhiambo, Christopher, editor.
ISBN:9781433192463
1433192462
9781433192470
9781433192487
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:"Kenyan Cinema provides one of the most striking case studies in the growth and development of film in Eastern Africa. The film industry has grown tremendously at the turn of the 21st century. Notably, there has been a significant increase in the number of domestic film productions, film screenings, film audiences and film festivals in the country. Indeed, Kenya has become one of Africa's major film markets. Kenyan actors, actresses and films are increasingly entering and featuring in global films and markets, and are connecting with international audiences in commercial cinemas and at major international film festivals. Adding to this impressive success is an upsurge in the number of tertiary institutions training in film and a corresponding surge in the number of students pursuing film studies in and outside the country currently. In the academic circles, interest in Kenyan Cinema as a serious scholarly subject has grown exponentially. The evolution of Kenyan Cinema scholarship is also noteworthy. Therefore, Reimagining Kenyan Cinema seeks to situate current scholarship on Kenyan Cinema within the ongoing debates in national and contemporary global film studies. It thus advocates for diverse methodologies, critical tools and theoretical perspectives in interrogating Kenyan film. This approach is premised on the realization that critical discussions on film should lead out of the films themselves towards matters of aesthetics, culture, history and society. The cumulative effect of this approach is that it allows for the presentation of a simultaneously synchronic and diachronic approach to the study of Kenyan cinema. While individual chapters will provide in-depth analyses of particular films, historical moments in Kenyan and key film texts, the chapters as a whole will cohere into a well-grounded and deeply informative collection of original contributions on the practice of Cinema in Kenya"--
Other form:Online version: Reimagining Kenyan cinema New York : Peter Lang, [2022] 9781433192470

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505 0 |a History of cinema in Kenya / Edwin Nyutho -- The rise and growth of Riverwood / Edwin Nyutho -- Making films in 21 century Kenya : a personal journey / Bob Nyanja -- Film distribution and marketing trends in Kenya / Charles Kebaya -- Subjecthood and nationhood in Bob Nyanja's Malooned / Boneace Chagara -- Reading the uncanny in the re-imagination of the postcolonial Kenyan nation in Malooned and Ni Sisi / Odhiambo Christopher Joseph -- (Re) imagining ethnic politics in Kenya through film / Violet Nasambu Barasa -- Revisiting the past, envisioning the future : an allegorical reading of from a whisper and something necessary / Jacqueline Ojiambo -- Kenyan cinema and intercultural communication / Peter N. Mose -- Mediating everyday violence through the film, Otto the blood bath (2009) / Keziah Wangui Githinji & Tsikhungu, Emmanuel Shikuku -- Performing identities in emerging Kenyan screen stories : reading the meanings of "man" in Machawood Festival's Wakamba forever and Love daggers / Fredrick Mbogo -- Women feature filmmaking in Kenya / Charles Kebaya & Gloria Kemunto Mokaya -- Judy Kibinge : an in interview / Jacqueline Ojiambo -- Visibilizing morality in Kenyan film / Susan Gitimu -- Transient figures and moral ambiguity in Kenya's fugitive cinema / Boneace Chagara -- Censorship and Kenyan cinema / Robert Wesonga. 
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