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À Kano, centre économique du Nord-Nigeria, le piratage audiovisuel fait partie intégrante de l'« architecture organisationnelle » de la globalisation. Plutôt que de revenir sur les aspects négatifs de cette activité, comme d'autres le font, l'auteur met l'accent sur le fait que cela a créé une nouvelle industrie caractérisée par des formes nouvelles de reproduction et de distribution et, finalement, qu'elle est devenue une forme tout à fait légitime de production audiovisuelle. L'auteur analyse aussi comment les faiblesses technologiques (images floues et son distordu) ont transformé les attentes des spectateurs. (Polit afr/DÜI)

Brian Larkin teaches anthropology at Barnard College. He is coeditor(with Faye Ginsburg and Lila Abu-Lughod) of Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain (2002). He writes on media and urbanization in Nigeria.

This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media—film, television, video—are used in societies around the globe, often in places that have been off the map of conventional media studies. The contributors, key figures in this new field, cover topics ranging from indigenous media projects around the world to the unexpected effects of state control of media to the local impact of film and television as they travel transnationally. Their essays, mostly new work produced for this volume, bring provocative new theoretical perspectives grounded in cross-cultural ethnographic realities to the study of media

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Crypto Regs — Fear, Greed, and the Destruction of the Digital Commons -- What We Should Do and What We Should Forget in Media Studies — Or, My TV A–Z -- Hybridity -- @henryparkesmotel.com -- Is Television a Global Medium? — A Historical View -- The Land Grab for Bandwidth — Digital Conversion in an Era of Consolidation -- Posthuman Law — Information Policy and the Machinic World -- Piracy, Infrastructure, and the Rise of a Nigerian Video Industry -- Unsuitable Coverage — The Media, the Veil, and Regimes of Representation -- Muscle, Market Value, Telegenesis, Cyberpresence — The New Asian Movie Star in the Global Economy of Masculine Images -- The African Diaspora Speaks in Digital Tongues -- Some Versions of Difference — Discourses of Hybridity in Transnational Musics -- Alternate Arrangement for Global Currents -- Notes on contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Reprint Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Work of Vision in the Age of European Empires -- Section I: The Imperial Optic -- Introduction -- PART 1: EMPIRES OF THE PALETTE -- CHAPTER 1. The Walls of Images -- CHAPTER 2. Painting as Exploration: Visualizing Nature in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Science -- CHAPTER 3. Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette -- CHAPTER 4. Colonial Panaromania -- PART 2: THE MASS-PRINTED IMPERIUM -- CHAPTER 5. Objects of Knowledge: Oceanic Artifacts in European Engravings -- CHAPTER 6. Excess in the City? The Consumption of Imported Prints in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1780-c. 1795 -- CHAPTER 7. Advertising and the Optics of Colonial Power at the Fin de Siècle -- PART 3: MAPPING, CLAIMING, RECLAIMING -- CHAPTER 8. Mapping Plus Ultra: Cartography, Space, and Hispanic Modernity -- CHAPTER 9. Mapping an Exotic World: The Global Project of Dutch Cartography, circa 1700 -- CHAPTER 10. Visual Regimes of Colonization: European and Aboriginal Seeing in Australia -- PART 4: THE IMPERIAL LENS -- CHAPTER 11. The Photography Complex: Exposing Boxer-Era China (1900-1901), Making Civilization -- CHAPTER 12. Colonial Theaters of Proof: Representation and Laughter in 1930s Rockefeller Foundation Hygiene Cinema in Java -- CHAPTER 13. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema -- Section II: Postcolonial Looking -- Introduction -- PART 5: SUBALTERN SEEING: AN OVERLAP OF COMPLEXITIES -- CHAPTER 14. Speaking Back to Orientalist Discourse -- CHAPTER 15. Maps, Mother/Goddesses, and Martyrdom in Modern India -- CHAPTER 16. Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism -- CHAPTER 17. "I Am Rendered Speechless by Your Idea of Beauty": The Picturesque in History and Art in the Postcolony -- CHAPTER 18. Fanon, Algeria, and the Cinema: The Politics of Identification -- PART 6: REGARDING AND RECONSTITUTING EUROPE -- CHAPTER 19. Creole Europe: The Reflection of a Reflection -- CHAPTER 20. Picasso, Africa, and the Schemata of Difference -- CHAPTER 21. Double Dutch and the Culture Game -- Conclusion: A Parting Glance: Empire and Visuality -- Contributors -- Index