Lexington Books
Pages: 176
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-7936-4924-9 • Hardback • March 2022 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
978-1-7936-4925-6 • eBook • March 2022 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Samson Kaunga Ndanyi is assistant professor of African history and Africana studies at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee.
Introduction
Chapter One: Making Instructional Cinema: Historical Overview
Chapter Two: Mobile Cinema Vans and African Assistants
Chapter Three: “A Problem of Something Like Chicago Gangsterdom”: Mau Mau War and Instructional Cinema
Chapter Four: Child Spectators and Cinema Spaces as Zones of Encounter and
Contested Political and Cultural Power
Chapter Five: “They Found Our Pictures Inferior in Quality”: Africans’ Reaction
to Instructional Cinema
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author