Reimagining Kenyan cinema /

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Imprint:	New York, NY : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., [2022]
Description:	xviii, 216 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Motion pictures -- Kenya. Motion picture industry -- Kenya. Motion picture industry. Motion pictures. Kenya.
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

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1. History of Cinema in Kenya
Chapter 2. The Rise and Growth of Riverwood
Chapter 3. Making Films in 21st-century Kenya: A Personal Journey
Chapter 4. Film Distribution and Marketing Trends in Kenya
Chapter 5. Subjecthood and Nationhood in Bob Nyanja's Maiooned
Chapter 6. Reading the Uncanny in the Re-imagination of the Post-Colonial Kenyan Nation in Malooned and Ni Sisi
Chapter 7. (Re)imagining Ethnic Politics in Kenya through Film
Chapter 8. Revisiting the Past, Envisioning the Future: An Allegorical Reading of From a Whisper (2008) and Something Necessary (2013)
Chapter 9. Kenyan Cinema and Intercultural Communication
Chapter 10. Mediating Everyday Violence through the Film, Otto The Blood Bath (2009)
Chapter 11. Performing Identities in Emerging Kenyan Screen Stones: Reading the Meanings of "Man" in Machawood Festival's Wakamba Forever and Love Daggers
Chapter 12. Women Feature Filmmaking in Kenya
Chapter 13. Judy Kibinge: An Interview
Chapter 14. Visibilizing Morality in Kenyan Film
Chapter 15. Transient Figures and Moral Ambiguity in Kenya's Fugitive Cinema
Chapter 16. Censorship and Kenyan Cinema
Index

Reimagining Kenyan cinema /

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