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Author:   Charles Kebaya ,  Christopher Joseph Odhiambo
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.409kg
ISBN:  

9781433192463

ISBN 10:   1433192462
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   20 October 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Danson Sylvester Kahyana: Foreword – Charles Kebaya/Christopher Joseph Odhiambo: Preface – Acknowledgements – Notes on Contributors – Edwin Nyutho: History of Cinema in Kenya – Edwin Nyutho: The Rise and Growth of Riverwood – Bob Nyanja: Making Films in 21st- Century Kenya: A Personal Journey – Charles Kebaya: Film Distribution and Marketing Trends in Kenya – Boneace Chagara: Subjecthood and Nationhood in Bob Nyanja’s Malooned – Christopher Joseph Odhiambo: Reading the Uncanny in the Re- imagination of the Post- Colonial Kenyan Nation in Malooned and Ni Sisi – Violet Nasambu Barasa: (Re)imagining Ethnic Politics in Kenya through Film – Jacqueline Ojiambo: Revisiting the Past, Envisioning the Future: An Allegorical Reading of From a Whisper (2008) and Something Necessary (2013) – Peter N. Mose: Kenyan Cinema and Intercultural Communication – Keziah Wangui Githinji/Emmanuel Shikuku Tsikhungu: Mediating Everyday Violence through the Film, Otto The Blood Bath (2009) – Fredrick Mbogo: Performing Identities in Emerging Kenyan Screen Stories: Reading the Meanings of ""Man"" in Machawood Festival’s Wakamba Forever and Love Daggers – Charles Kebaya/Gloria Kemunto Mokaya: Women Feature Filmmaking in Kenya – Jacqueline Ojiambo: Judy Kibinge: An Interview – Susan Gitimu: Visibilizing Morality in Kenyan Film – Boneace Chagara: Transient Figures and Moral Ambiguity in Kenya’s Fugitive Cinema – Robert Wesonga: Censorship and Kenyan Cinema – Index."

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Charles Kebaya is a fulltime member of the Department of Languages and Linguistics at Machakos University. He has co-edited texts such as Cultural Archives of Atrocity: Essays on the Protest Tradition in Kenyan Literature, Culture and Society (2019), Language and Translation: Theory, Pedagogy and Practice (2016), and African Drama and Theatre: A Criticism (2012). He has co-authored A Workbook in Understanding Literature for Kenyan Schools (2020) and authored Federico Garcia Lorca’s Subversive Theatre (2011). He has published a number of articles in referred journals on popular art, comedy and television drama in Kenya. Christopher Joseph Odhiambo, CJ as he is popularly known, is Professor of Literature and Applied Drama/Theatre and currently serves as the Dean of the School of Postgraduate Studies at Moi University, Kenya. He holds a Dphil in Theatre for Development from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He has won research awards and international fellowships and served as a keynote speaker in a number of conferences and symposia both locally and internationally. He has published several articles in referred journals and various book chapters on areas of theatre for development, community theatre, aesthetics of theatre and film in Kenya. He has authored Imagined Definition and Vision of the Caribbean: A Reading of George Lamming’s Novels (2011), Theatre for Development in Kenya: In Search of Appropriate Procedure and Methodology (2008) and co-authored African Ethnics and Personal Names (1998) and Orientations of Drama, Theatre and Culture (1998). Currently, CJ Odhiambo serves as the National Chairman of the Kenya National Drama and Film Festival Committee.

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