African theatre. Media & performance / guest editor, David Kerr ; review editor, Jane Plastow.
| Call Number | 792.09609051 |
| Title | African theatre. guest editor, David Kerr ; review editor, Jane Plastow. Media & Performance |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xx, 154 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | "I ain't gonna play Sun City!": anti-apartheid solidarity and its consequences / Ownership & power: debate & discourse around the subcultural phenomenon of Die Antwoord / "Border-neutering" devices in Nigerian home video tradition: a study of Mainframe films / Tanzanian films: between innovation & incompetence / "Telling our story": conversations with KinaUganda home movie directors Mariam Ndagire & Ashraf Simwogerere / Zimbabwe's Studio 263: navigating between entertainment & health messaging / Vele abantu Sinjalo: nationhood & ethno-linguistic dissent in Zimbabwen television drama / Within between: engaging communities in contemporary dance practice in East Africa / Water feels: layering time in a contemporary multi-media performance / The campus queen / |
| Summary | Focuses on the ways African theatre and performance relate to various kinds of media. Includes contributions on dance; popular video, with an emphasis on video drama and soaps from Eastern and Southern Africa, and the Nigerian 'Nollywood' phenomenon; the interface between live performance and video (or still photography), and links between on-line social networks and new performance identities. As a group the articles raise, from original angles, the issues of racism, gender, identity, advocacy and sponsorship. Volume Editor: DAVID KERR is Professor of English in the University of Botswana, and is the author of 'African Popular Theatre'. Series Editors: Martin Banham, Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre Studies, University of Leeds; James Gibbs, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of the West of England; Femi Osofisan, Professor at the University of Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds; Yvette Hutchison, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick. |
| Added Author | Kerr, David, 1942- editor. Plastow, Jane, editor. |
| Subject | Performing arts Africa. Theater Africa. Theater Technological innovations Africa. Video recordings in the theater Africa. |
| Multimedia |
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| Summary | Focuses on the ways African theatre and performance relate to various kinds of media. Includes contributions on dance; popular video, with an emphasis on video drama and soaps from Eastern and Southern Africa, and the Nigerian 'Nollywood' phenomenon; the interface between live performance and video (or still photography), and links between on-line social networks and new performance identities. As a group the articles raise, from original angles, the issues of racism, gender, identity, advocacy and sponsorship. Volume Editor: DAVID KERR is Professor of English in the University of Botswana, and is the author of 'African Popular Theatre'. Series Editors: Martin Banham, Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre Studies, University of Leeds; James Gibbs, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of the West of England; Femi Osofisan, Professor at the University of Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds; Yvette Hutchison, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | "I ain't gonna play Sun City!": anti-apartheid solidarity and its consequences / Ownership & power: debate & discourse around the subcultural phenomenon of Die Antwoord / "Border-neutering" devices in Nigerian home video tradition: a study of Mainframe films / Tanzanian films: between innovation & incompetence / "Telling our story": conversations with KinaUganda home movie directors Mariam Ndagire & Ashraf Simwogerere / Zimbabwe's Studio 263: navigating between entertainment & health messaging / Vele abantu Sinjalo: nationhood & ethno-linguistic dissent in Zimbabwen television drama / Within between: engaging communities in contemporary dance practice in East Africa / Water feels: layering time in a contemporary multi-media performance / The campus queen / |
| Subject | Performing arts Africa. Theater Africa. Theater Technological innovations Africa. Video recordings in the theater Africa. |
| Multimedia |