The purpose of this paper is to analyse the representation of Africa in NHK's first overseas TV programme Going to Africa (1959-1960) and the book Going to Africa (1960), which was published by the programme's special news team. First, the authors watched Going to the Continent of Africa (broadcast from 1959 to 1960) through the 2nd Academic Use Trial of NHK's Programme Archives in 2016. Then, the authors organised the differences in linguistic expressions found in the extant scripts of Going to the African Continent (Volumes 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6) and Going to the African Continent. The study then organised the knowledge and understanding of Africa at the time, using literature on Africa, including history and geography textbooks from post-war primary and junior high schools, as a starting point. Using this basic frame of perception of Africa as a clue, we reconstructed the basic process by which the TV series 'On Going to the African Continent' and the book 'Going to the African Continent' were produced, and thereby examined the differences in content between the two in detail. Implications that can be drawn from this paper are as follows. The theoretical framework for analysing Africa is connected to the frames through which we organise our daily experiences. This is why the representation of Africa is difficult to change, and the representation of Africa alone cannot be changed independently. But it is still possible to update the frame. New frames are possible through the reworking of the frames at hand. And the clues for this are already given in the representations of Africa visible in the frame at hand.

「ふたつの〈アフリカ大陸を行く〉:NHK海外初取材番組にみるアフリカの表象」(Futatsu no "Afurika Tairiku wo Iku"): NHK Kaigai Hatsu Shuzai Bangumi ni miru Afurika no Hyosho [Two“Afurika Tairiku wo Iku”: Representations of Africa seen in NHK’s first overseas reporting program])

Hirofumi UTSUMI
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2019-01-01

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the representation of Africa in NHK's first overseas TV programme Going to Africa (1959-1960) and the book Going to Africa (1960), which was published by the programme's special news team. First, the authors watched Going to the Continent of Africa (broadcast from 1959 to 1960) through the 2nd Academic Use Trial of NHK's Programme Archives in 2016. Then, the authors organised the differences in linguistic expressions found in the extant scripts of Going to the African Continent (Volumes 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6) and Going to the African Continent. The study then organised the knowledge and understanding of Africa at the time, using literature on Africa, including history and geography textbooks from post-war primary and junior high schools, as a starting point. Using this basic frame of perception of Africa as a clue, we reconstructed the basic process by which the TV series 'On Going to the African Continent' and the book 'Going to the African Continent' were produced, and thereby examined the differences in content between the two in detail. Implications that can be drawn from this paper are as follows. The theoretical framework for analysing Africa is connected to the frames through which we organise our daily experiences. This is why the representation of Africa is difficult to change, and the representation of Africa alone cannot be changed independently. But it is still possible to update the frame. New frames are possible through the reworking of the frames at hand. And the clues for this are already given in the representations of Africa visible in the frame at hand.
2019
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