Drama for Development by Andrew Skuse
How do drama serials communicate development goals and achieve dramatic impact? What is involved in translating storylines, such as those from the BBC’s longest running radio soap opera, The Archers, for diverse local cultural contexts? Can drama serials bring about positive social change? This book offers unprecedented insights into the production and consumption of a range of popular radio and television drama serials, broadcast in places as diverse as Afghanistan, Burma, Cambodia, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Nigeria and Rwanda. It brings into dialogue the perspectives of the creative teams who make ‘dramas for development’, the donors who pay for them, and the audiences who consume them. It also highlights the crucial role of audience research as a tool for making drama and as a resource for translating cultures. This book emerges from a unique research collaboration over a three year period between The Open University, the University of Adelaide, and the BBC World Service Trust. This path-breaking initiative opens windows on the intertwined worlds of media and development for academics and audiences alike. Cultural translation means different things for dramatists, development practitioners, donors, audiences, and scholars. Their interests may collude or collide. What accommodations and adjustments are entailed in transnational circuits of serial drama production? What imaginative investments are required on the part of dramatists unfamiliar with local cultures? What cultural assumptions need to be exploded to reach audiences? This book offers an innovative framework for analysing drama for development that will appeal to practitioners and academics alike.Students, lecturers and practitioners alike should find this and other contrasts in the volume to be useful triggers to debate and comparison as the field continues to change and rising nations…Drama for Development is a powerful reminder that we should not overlook radio or television in our fascination with the newer technologies, for both ‘old’ media remains as central to the lives and aspirations of billions of people across the global South – and indeed the North – as they were in pre-Facebook times.
-- Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteA collection of 13 essays, the book analyses serials produced in India between 1999 and 2010 to track how entertainment can be used for education.
-- Businessworld| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9788132105916 |
| ISBN 10 | 8132105915 |
| Title | Drama for Development |
| Author | Andrew Skuse |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd |
| Year published | 2011-06-20 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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