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C o n t e n t s Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi IntroductIon Cultural Identity in Discourse 1 chapter 1 A Crisis of Representation 11 chapter 2 Cinematic Arts before the 2001 Broadcasting Services Act: Two Decades of Trying to Build a Nation 31 chapter 3 Authorship and Identities: What Makes a Film “Local”? 71 chapter 4 Changing the Channel: Using the Foreign to Critique the Local 92 chapter 5 Power, Citizenship, and Local Content: A Critical Reading of the Broadcasting Services Act 121 chapter 6 Language as a Form of Social Change: Public Debate in Local Languages 143 conclusIon Possibilities for Democratic Change 162 Notes 181 Bibliography 191 Filmography 205 Index 221 This page intentionally left blank ...

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