Missionaries played a fundamental role in introducing cinema into the developing world in the early twentieth century. These representatives of the Christian community diligently produced films about far-flung cultures to bolster fundraising for mission efforts around the globe. By the interwar period; a few husband-and-wife teams in Africa were making an array of films about vanishing cultures and the struggle to bring Christianity to indigenous populations. Images Out of Africa brings to light the remarkable expedition of one such team of filmmakers. In 1938; Virginia and Ray Garner; working for the Africa Motion Picture Project; ambitiously began making films in the Belgian Congo and French Cameroons; introducing film into villages for the first time. This book features Virginia Garners recently rediscovered diaries; which highlight the challenges of making films in Africa in the 1930s and include rich descriptions of cross-cultural interactions and micro-negotiations with chiefs; headmen; and villagers.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Newest Edition UnexpectedBy Catherine GersterSo this must have come in an addition straight off the presses because this was not consistent with the edition that I had ordered--the punctuation for iambic pentameter is not exactly like the previous edition. The previous edition is what we are using in my british seminar and causes a little problem with pronunication--but if you arent reading these plays aloud it should be just fine
