Abstract When Mozambique gained independence in 1975, film became one of its most important cultural projects, second only to radio. One of the pressing issues of the new government was to create an idea of nationhood in a country where many ethnic groups, cultures, and languages coexisted. With a literacy rate of only fifteen per cent, film became an important tool in the creation of national identity, by serving as a vehicle for imagining a new community, in the sense described by Benedict Anderson in Imagined Communities. In 1976, the government created the Instituto Nacional de Cinema (National Film Institute) – INC. In this article, I discuss how the new nation was imagined through cinema, in particular in the Kuxa Kanema series, and the impact that it had on the idea of Mozambican nationhood.

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在独立后的莫桑比克拍摄民族

摘要 1975年莫桑比克独立后，电影成为其最重要的文化项目之一，仅次于广播。新政府的紧迫问题之一是在一个多民族、文化和语言共存的国家中创造一种民族观念。在识字率仅为 15% 的情况下，电影成为创造民族认同的重要工具，作为想象新社区的工具，正如本尼迪克特·安德森在想象的社区中所描述的那样。1976 年，政府创建了 Instituto Nacional de Cinema (National Film Institute) – INC。在本文中，我将讨论如何通过电影来想象这个新国家，特别是在 Kuxa Kanema 系列中，以及它对电影的影响莫桑比克国家的想法。