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  • The Cinema of Apartheid

    Race and Class in South African Film

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    This study analyses the historical development of South African cinema up to he book's original publication in 1988. It describes the films and comments on their relationship to South African realities, addressing all aspects of the industry, focusing on domestic production, but also discussing international film companies who use South Africa as a location. It explores tensions between English ... Read more

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  • Contesting Media Power

    Alternative Media in a Networked World

    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a broad comparative framework for analyzing alternative media in Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United ... Read more

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  • African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization

    Volume 1: Colonial Antecedents, Constituents, Theory, and Articulations

    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film.Volume One of this landmark series on African cinema draws together foundational scholarship on its history and evolution. Beginning with the ideological project of colonial film to legitimize the economic ... Read more

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  • Writing in the San/d

    Autoethnography among Indigenous Southern Africans

    Series series Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry
    The San/Bushmen are one of the most studied people in anthropology, subjects of research going back one hundred years, of documentaries, and even of popular movies (The Gods Must Be Crazy). This intriguing new work on the San is a team-based ethnography, collaborative (one of the writers is married to a member of the community), reflexive (the authors become characters in the book themselves), and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Researchers as Tourists

    Fieldwork, Contingency and Autoethnography

    Academics are often tourists—curious, observant, and ethically entangled in the worlds they move through, blurring the lines between research and leisure, between consumption and contemplation in contemporary cultural studies.Through reflexive and often autoethnographic accounts, these scholar-tourists expose the tensions between authenticity and performance, ethics and enjoyment, distance and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • An Anthology of African Cultural Studies, Volume II

    Directions

    This volume focuses on the directions that African cultural studies has taken over the years and covers the following central themes: contemporary issues in African cultural studies; Gender and the making of identity; the dual discourses of Afropessimism and Afrofuturism; problematizing the African diaspora and methodology and African cultural studies.The second of two volumes, the book ... Read more

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  • Screen Culture in the Global South

    Cinema at the End of the World

    This volume adopts a transversal South-South approach to the study of visual culture in transnational, transcultural, and geopolitical contexts.Every day hundreds of people travel back and forth between southern countries, including Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, New Zealand, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and South Africa. With these people travel cultures, experiences, memories, and images. This ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • An Anthology of African Cultural Studies, Volume I

    Groundings

    This volume provides an overview of fundamental or ‘grounding’ themes in African Cultural Studies, including the articulation of African cultural studies, the issue of Africa’s diaspora(s), African identity and identifications, and media studies in Africa and its relationship with cultural studies. The first of two volumes, the book predominantly pulls together a rich reservoir of previously ... Read more

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  • Brand China in the Media

    Transformation of Identities

    This book examines China’s identity transformations with a focus on self-perceptions and their representations and communication in the mass media. By considering the internal dynamics of change, it explores the emerging multifaceted ‘China brand’.With its growing economic clout, China has taken a proactive stance in shaping global economic and strategic order through ambitious programmes such as ... Read more

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  • Researchers as Travellers and Storytellers

    Culture, Research and Identity

    Researchers are, in many ways, travellers and storytellers whose journeys across landscapes, disciplines, and cultures offer profound opportunities for discovery, reflection, and connection within contemporary cultural studies.Drawing from interdisciplinary perspectives including literary studies, media studies, and cultural geography, this collection demonstrates how travel becomes a site of ... Read more

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  • Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse

    Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to lay bare the diversity and essence of African cinema discourse. It is an anthology of historical reflections, critical essays, and interviews by film critics, historians, theorists, and filmmakers that signifies a dialogue and engagement apropos the ideology and cultural politics of film production in Africa ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • San Representation

    Politics, Practice and Possibilities

    The San or Bushmen of southern Africa have exerted a fascination over generations of writers and scholars, from novelists and anarchists to ethnologists and geneticists, and also occupy a special place in the popular imagination as the First People and the contemporary remnant of spiritual and natural man. The ways in which particular groups of people from southern Africa have been traditionally ... Read more

    $40.99 USD