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Using scenes from Sembene Ousmane's film 'Xala' this programme analyses Galtung's ideas about the cultural penetration of the Third World by the industrialised nations of the West.
Using scenes from Sembene Ousmane's film 'Xala' this programme analyses Galtung's ideas about the cultural penetration of the Third World by the industrialised nations of the West.
| Module code and title: | D233, World politics |
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| Item code: | D233; 10 |
| First transmission date: | 22-09-1981 |
| Published: | 1981 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:30 |
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| Producer: | Jeremy Cooper |
| Contributors: | Johan Galtung; Michael Shackleton |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Economic development; Ousmane; Politics; Xala: Harold Macmillan: 'Wind of change' speech: |
| Footage description: | Johan Galtung introduces the programme by explaining his ideas about the penetration of one country by another. Archive tape of Harold Macmillan's 'wind of change' speech. Scenes from the film 'Xala' representing the take-over of an African colonial administration by the local people. Mike Shackleton gives some background information on the film 'Xala' and filmmaker Sembene Ousmane. He describes how the film deals with the problem of cultural penetration. A further clip from the film shows the new officials at a meeting during which they are all bribed by their former white rulers. They then leave to attend a colleague's wedding. Mike Shackleton explains that Sembene uses the wedding and the impotence of the bridegroom as themes to illustrate the penetration of Western values into the traditional way of life. Galtung talks about the adoption of Western values by the elite of the periphery. The tension this creates in a country is the cultural penetration. Scenes from 'Xala' in which the bride's mother shows off the wedding gifts. Shackleton and Galtung analyse the significance of these mostly Western luxury items. Scenes from 'Xala' in which the new cabinet arrives at the wedding and mixes with people wearing traditional clothing. The bridegroom refuses to comply with a traditional fertility ceremony and then finds that he suffers from impotency. Mike Shackleton explains the development of the film, and the significance of its use of language. There follows a scene in which the man, El Hadji, speaks to his daughter in French whilst she speaks to him in her native tongue, Wolef. Shackleton and Galtung discuss the significance of language as an element of cultural penetration. In a further scene from the film El Hadji arranges for the forcible removal of the beggars from in front of his store. Later he confronts his colleagues with the truth of their collaboration with colonialism. Mike Shackleton sums up the significance of the film. |
| Master spool number: | OU 3678 |
| Production number: | FOUD147W |
| Videofinder number: | 122 |
| Available to public: | no |
