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      REEL PLEASURES

      NEW AFRICAN HISTORIES

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      Laura Fair, Reel Pleasures

       REEL PLEASURES

       CINEMA AUDIENCES AND ENTREPRENEURS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY URBAN TANZANIA

       LAURA FAIR

      OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

      ATHENS

      Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

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      A version of chapter 3 appeared as “Making Love in the Indian Ocean: Hindi Films, Zanzibari Audiences and the Construction of Romance in the 1950s,” in Cole and Thomas, eds., Love in Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2009), 58–82.

      A version of chapter 6 was previously published as “Drive-In Socialism: Debating Modernities and Development in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,” The American Historical Review 118, no. 4 (2013): 1077–104.

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Fair, Laura, author.

      Title: Reel pleasures : cinema audiences and entrepreneurs in twentieth-century urban Tanzania / Laura Fair.

      Other titles: New African histories series.

      Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2017. | Series: New African histories

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017043710| ISBN 9780821422854 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821422861 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821446119 (pdf)

      Subjects: LCSH: Motion picture industry--Tanzania. | Motion picture audiences--Social aspects--Tanzania. | Motion picture theaters--Tanzania.

      Classification: LCC PN1993.5.T34 F35 2017 | DDC 791.4309678--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017043710

       Dedicated to Sabri and Nassir

       for the joy they brought to the journey and for teaching me about the important things in life

      May 2005

       CONTENTS

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgments

       A Note on Usage

       Introduction

       Chapter 1. Building Business and Building Community: The Exhibition and Distribution Industries in Tanzania, 1900s–50s

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