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
Chapter 2. The Men Who Made the Movies Run
Chapter 3. Making Love in the Indian Ocean: Hindi Films and Zanzibari Audiences in the 1950s
Chapter 4. Global Films and Local Reception: Audience Preferences, 1950s–80s
Chapter 5. Cinemas, Cities, and Audiences: Cultural Geographies and Social Difference at the Show
Chapter 6. Drive-In Socialism: Debating Modernities and Development in Dar es Salaam
Chapter 7. The Independence Generation Goes to the Show, 1960s–80s
Chapter 8. The Political Economy of Cinema, 1960s–80s
Epilogue. A New World: Transformations in Mediascapes, the 1990s and Beyond
ILUSTRATIONS
FIGURES
I.1. Jaws Corner, December 2014
I.2. Sultana Cinema, Zanzibar, c. 1953
I.3. Dar es Salaam Cinema ads, May 8, 1966
I.4. Plaza Cinema, Moshi, c. 1947
1.1. Alexandra Cinema, Dar es Salaam, c. 1916
1.2. Royal Cinema, Zanzibar, opened 1921
1.3. Christmas/New Year’s greeting card from colonial Zanzibar
1.4. Avalon Cinema, Dar es Salaam, c. 1945
1.5. Everest Cinema, Moshi, opened 1953
1.6. Playhouse Cinema, opened 1947, and Highland Cinema, opened 1961, Iringa
1.7. Metropole Cinema, Morogoro, opened 1953, later renamed the Shan
1.8. Majestic Cinema, Zanzibar, c. 1956
1.9. Business letterhead of the Avalon Cinema, Dar es Salaam
1.10. Mohanlal Kala Savani, founder of Majestic Film Distributors Ltd. and Majestic Theaters, Tanga
1.11. Shavekshaw Hormasji Talati
2.1. Ad for Mother India, Zanzibar Central Market
2.2. Human billboards, drawing by Juli McGruder, 2016
2.3. Abdulhussein Marashi and Rashid Abdalla, proprietor and employee of the Majestic Cinema, Zanzibar, December 2014
3.1. Awara film still, from the third song, “Awara Hoon”
3.2. Awara poster
3.3. Awara film still, from the sixth song, “Jab Se Balam Ghar Aaye”
4.1. Ad for Adios Gringo, starring Giuliano Gemma, June 26, 1966
4.2. The Big Five, Elvis tribute band, on the stage of the Avalon Cinema
