Tropical dream palaces : cinema in colonial West Africa / Odile Georg.
Tropical dream palaces : cinema in colonial West Africa / Odile Georg.
Tropical dream palaces : cinema in colonial West Africa / Odile Georg.
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
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G 2020/3503
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English
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Physical content
ix, 201 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction -- 1. From Under the Starry Skies to the Confines of the Movie Theatre : The Interwar Years -- 2. Regulation, Control and Censorship in the Interwar Years -- 3. Mobile Cinema and Travelling Entrepreneurs : Cinema in the Village (the Early 1900s to the 1950s) -- 4. A Window on the World...
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
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New York (State)
Date Published
[2020]
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"Many studies focus on film in Africa. Few, however, study cinema as a leisure activity: one that has influenced several generations and opened up spaces to dream, discuss or contest. Movie theatres offered a break from the daily routine, as places of escape and of education. Cinema was also potentially subversive, offering an alternative to coloni...
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Tropical dream palaces : cinema in colonial West Africa / Odile Georg.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-189) and index.
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G 2020/3503
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74VKa62jjlrO
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ISBN
9780190089078 hardcover
0190089075 hardcover
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791.430966
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991024338414502626
