Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts: Language, Power, Identity

Index

ABN (African Broadcast Network), 101 abortion, 83, 86 Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (2002), 19 “Act Opens New Era in Broadcasting” (Herald editorial), 134–35 actors, 6, 47, 49, 85 advertising films, 62 advertising revenue, 7 Africa, 52, 75, 97; cinematic production increase in, 84; colonialism in, 115; distribution of cinematic arts in, 177; edutainment role of film in, 43; filmmaking and nation-building, 70; postindependence “authentic” national culture, 138; represented in American films, 12; rural majority in, 58; television service in sub-Saharan Africa, 32 Africa Film & TV magazine, 12 Africa Film Week, 64 AfricaMagic Plus (DSTV station), 177 African Americans / African American culture, 20, 88, 93 African Script Development Fund, 37, 96, 169 African Times (colonial-era newspaper), 63 Afrikaans language, 108, 145 Afrobeat (TV show), 99 After the Hunger and Drought (film, 1985), 40, 65 agency, 74, 92, 95–96, 129–30 AIASVF (An International African Stories Video Fair), 63–64 AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), 41, 72, 83, 88; educational soap operas and, 106; popularity of films about, 97; soap operas as education about, 165, 166. See also HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) “alien,” as label, 15, 17 All Roads Film Festival, 170 Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (film, 1987), 37, 47 Allen, R. C., 109 ’Allo ’Allo! (British TV sitcom), 99 Amakorokoza (TV soap opera), 165, 167 Andersen, Michael Bruun, 34, 51, 67, 98, 119; on editing of news in service of state power, 155; on foreign/local dichotomy, 117; on news programming , 115; on television imports, 94 Ang, Ian, 109 Angola, 64 animation, 176 apartheid, 16, 30, 39, 173 Appadurai, Arjun, 13 Armchair Safari and Battles (TV show), 49 Arnsten, Hilde, 113 art directors, 47 Assegai, The (film, 1982), 47 audiences (viewers/listeners), 6, 43, 168, 175; agency of, 95–96; black, 44, 58, 81; BSA and, 127, 128, 134, 137; constructed as victims, 95–98, 119; as “cultural dupes,” 92; discourse of, 14; English dominance critiqued by, 145– 49; favorite programs, 99–102; foreign, 71; letters to editors from, 98–106; mobile cinema and, 12; phone calls to talk shows, 157–58; responses to soap operas, 109–11, 120; responses to Yellow Card, 83–87; for Rhodesian television programming, 58; rural, 59, 63, 144; urban, 82; viewers as authors, 87–90; white, 44, 58 Auret, Mike, Jr., 97, 123, 124, 135, 168, 173 Auret, Mike, Sr., 63 authenticity, 20, 52, 74, 78–82, 85; BSA and, 138, 142; subversion of concept of, 161 authorship, 71, 72–73, 87–90 Axe and the Tree, The (film, 2004), 172, 173 Banda, John, 85 Bangladesh, 76 i n d e x 222 index Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment, 32 Barnard, Ian, 145 Barwe-Tonga language/people, 44 Bassoppo-Moyo, Temba C., 45 BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), 29, 36, 48, 99, 115; BSA and, 166; Egyptian uprising covered by, 163; World Service, 122–23 BBC report on broadcasting in Zimbabwe, 31, 32, 33, 44, 49; on increasing access in rural areas, 59; on nation-building, 64; privatization of ZBC recommended by, 121; on Zimbabwean domestic television production , 50 “Be Patient, Minister Urges Prospective Broadcasters” (anonymous Herald article), 139 belonging, 12, 18–20, 23 Benatar, Solly, 62 Beverly Hills 90210 (American TV show), 108 Bhagat, Heeten, 69 Bhundu Boys, The, 50 Big Brother Africa (TV show), 177 Biko, Steve, 38 Birwa language/people, 44 Bitter Pill (film, 2007), 169 Black African Cinema (Ukadike), 37, 70 black market, 49 black Zimbabweans: black faces on screen, 48–51; citizenship and, 18–20; colonial propaganda and blacks, 32–33; democratization in representation of, 58; in film production, 46–48; foreign/local dichotomy and, 14; “honest black Zimbabweans,” 3–4; liberation war and, 17; mobile cinema and, 62; television production and, 30; as “terrorists” to white Rhodesians, 16–17 Blair, Tony, 21 blogging, 23 Blommaert, Jan, 5 Bold and the Beautiful, The (American TV soap opera), 99 Bonanza (American TV show), 49 Boni-Claverie, Isabelle, 74–75 Boora, Lazarus, 84–85, 86 Botswana, 39, 64 Bric-a-Brac (British TV show), 49 Bright, Simon, 2–3, 21, 80, 164, 169; arrested in Zimbabwe, 173; departure from Zimbabwe, 168; on documentary films, 39; on donor funding, 41–42; on film critical of Mugabe, 173, 174; on languages used in films, 52–53, 55; Southern African Film Festival and, 61; on ZBC and democratic change, 176; ZFVA chaired by, 38 Britain (United Kingdom), 45, 78, 82, 168; decried in Mugabe’s speeches, 14; development agencies in, 40; television shows imported from...