ABSTRACT

This article explores the circulation and reception of Indian media (including films and more recently television series) in the majority Muslim city of Tamale, Northern Ghana. This includes the arrival of Hindi films during the late 1950s, the subsequent (short-lived) circulation of Bollywood films in the early 1990s, and the more recent arrival of contemporary Indian television serials in the 2010s. In charting histories of these three regionally linked transnational media flows, this article complicates “linear” experiences of Indian media in Northern Ghana. Though Tamale’s Dagbamba viewers understand these three media flows as regionally linked, they are sensitive to changes in format, narrative, plot, and style taking place in Indian film and television over time. For over sixty years, Indian media flows have gained traction, broken down, restarted, and flowed in “feedback loops”, dependent on the ways in which Indian media reflect, align with, and at times depart from Dagbamba conservative cultural and religious values.

摘要

本文探讨了印度媒体（包括电影和最近的电视连续剧）在加纳北部穆斯林占多数的城市塔马利的流通和接受情况。这包括 1950 年代后期印地语电影的到来、1990 年代初期宝莱坞电影的后续（短命）发行以及 2010 年代印度当代电视连续剧的最新面世。在绘制这三个区域相关的跨国媒体流动的历史时，本文将印度媒体在加纳北部的“线性”体验复杂化。尽管 Tamale 的 Dagbamba 观众将这三种媒体流理解为具有区域联系，但他们对印度电影和电视随着时间的推移发生的格式、叙事、情节和风格的变化很敏感。60 多年来，印度媒体的流动获得了牵引力，分解了，