Reel Pleasures: Cinema Audiences and Entrepreneurs in Twentieth Century Urban Tanzania by Prof Laura Fair. Published in 2018 by Ohio University Press, 30 Park Place, Suite 101, Athens, OH 45701-2909, USA. Pp: 452. Price: Not mentioned.
Written by Prof Laura Fair with great awareness of the multifaceted factors that make up this public area of recreation and business, of song and politics, this comprehensive study of cinema audiences and entrepreneurs in Tangan- yika/Tanzania over the past century has broader relevance than its title suggests.
These entrepreneurs, mostly from the Indian diaspora, governed how the public and private worlds of film reception......