Through a national cinema theoretical framework, this article interrogates how cinema aided the Tanzanian government in the invention of a national culture identity during the country's nation-building phase of the 1960s and 1970s. It is argued that in its initial stage of nation formation after Independence, the government used cinema as an apparatus to construct a national identity that confirmed and adhered to the ruling class's interests and idea of a nation. Thus by controlling how cinema was produced, distributed, and exhibited to the masses through the 1960s and 1970s, the government did not bring about unification of the people; rather it helped in solidifying the primacy of the government. The cinema produced by the government was a cheer leading cinema which provided no space for analysis of issues; further, it was a cinema that denied freedom of expression to its filmmakers and to its audiences.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2015
توصيف ظاهري
84-105
عنوان
Utafiti
شماره جلد
11/1-2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
2683-6408
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
National Building Project
اصطلاح موضوعی
national cinema
اصطلاح موضوعی
national identity
اصطلاح موضوعی
social engineering
اصطلاح موضوعی
Tanganyika African Nationalist Union (TANU)
اصطلاح موضوعی
Ujamaa
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