Reel Pleasures: Cinema Audiences and Entrepreneurs in Twentieth-Century Urban Tanzania

by Laura Fair

Book Overview

Reel Pleasures brings the world of African moviehouses and the publics they engendered to life, revealing how local fans creatively reworked global media--from Indian melodrama to Italian westerns, kung fu, and blaxploitation films--to speak to local dreams and desires. In it, Laura Fair zeroes in on Tanzanians' extraordinarily dynamic media cultures to demonstrate how the public and private worlds of film reception brought communities together and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821422863
• ISBN13: 9780821422861
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 2.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"