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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:20:08 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Samuel S. Thomas" <ssthomas@artsci.wustl.edu>
Meghan Vaughan has a section on the use of film for medical
instruction in _Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness_.
Sam Thomas
Department of History
Washington University
ssthomas@artsci.wustl.edu
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~ssthomas
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>Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 21:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Jonathan M Haynes <jhaynes@panther.middlebury.edu>
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>
>There is an excellent discussion of the institution of cinema in
Northern
>Nigeria (specifically Kano) during the colonial period in Brian
Larkin's
>recent Ph.D thesis. I don't have his title at hand, but he got his
degree
>this year from the Department of Anthropology at NYU. I've found
the
>whole thesis to be immensely stimulating.>
>Jonathan Haynes
>
>
From: jpallis@OPIE.BGSU.EDU (Janis L. Pallister)
A fictional account of such an experience [colonial people attending
cinema] is found in _Les Bouts de bois de Dieu_ by Ousmane Sembene.>
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