Aesthetic norms and motivations of Subaltern Video-Filmmaking: comic skits and mobile journalism of the everyday in Zimbabwe
Comic outfits Magamba Network, Bustop TV and P.O Box have gained popularity for their creative forms of youth activism in which they produce and disseminate, via social media, skits about ‘everyday’ issues in Zimbabwe. The chapter examines skits produced by the outfits, raising critical questions ab...
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| description | Comic outfits Magamba Network, Bustop TV and P.O Box have gained popularity for their creative forms of youth activism in which they produce and disseminate, via social media, skits about ‘everyday’ issues in Zimbabwe. The chapter examines skits produced by the outfits, raising critical questions about external interference by professionalised, institutionalised and politicised commissioning agencies that paradoxically amplify and trivialise the subaltern’s representational agency. Methodologically, data is collected through archival collection of selected skits and interviews with the art activists (artivists). The data is subjected to thematic analysis. The chapter argues that external funding for the activities of these outfits creates a conundrum in that while it offers an assured means of sustainability, it also curtails creativity. |
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| spelling | ir-11408-48382022-06-27T13:49:05Z Aesthetic norms and motivations of Subaltern Video-Filmmaking: comic skits and mobile journalism of the everyday in Zimbabwe Ureke, Oswelled Subaltern filmmaking Alternative media Comic skits Video activism Artivist Comic outfits Magamba Network, Bustop TV and P.O Box have gained popularity for their creative forms of youth activism in which they produce and disseminate, via social media, skits about ‘everyday’ issues in Zimbabwe. The chapter examines skits produced by the outfits, raising critical questions about external interference by professionalised, institutionalised and politicised commissioning agencies that paradoxically amplify and trivialise the subaltern’s representational agency. Methodologically, data is collected through archival collection of selected skits and interviews with the art activists (artivists). The data is subjected to thematic analysis. The chapter argues that external funding for the activities of these outfits creates a conundrum in that while it offers an assured means of sustainability, it also curtails creativity. 2022-05-09T11:27:17Z 2022-05-09T11:27:17Z 2021 Book chapter 978-3-030-78910-7 978-3-030-78911-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78911-4_10 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4838 en Ethnographies of ‘On Demand’ Films: Vailati, A., Zamorano Villarreal, G. (eds);Chapter: p. 219-241 open Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. |
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| title | Aesthetic norms and motivations of Subaltern Video-Filmmaking: comic skits and mobile journalism of the everyday in Zimbabwe |
| title_full | Aesthetic norms and motivations of Subaltern Video-Filmmaking: comic skits and mobile journalism of the everyday in Zimbabwe |
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| title_short | Aesthetic norms and motivations of Subaltern Video-Filmmaking: comic skits and mobile journalism of the everyday in Zimbabwe |
| title_sort | aesthetic norms and motivations of subaltern video-filmmaking: comic skits and mobile journalism of the everyday in zimbabwe |
| topic | Subaltern filmmaking Alternative media Comic skits Video activism Artivist |
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