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Imaging And The National Imagining: Theorizing Visual Sovereignty In Trinidad And Tobago Moving Image Media Through Analysis Of Television Advertising, Susan Lillian Mcfarlane-Alvarez

Communication Dissertations

Academic and popular discourse frequently positions postcolonial countries as receivers of visual culture rather than as producers and transmitters. These countries are often deemed as being subject to hegemonic forces of global media flows, the influx of foreign programming into their media landscapes hindering any significant development of distinct national identity through visual media. Since independence from British rule in 1962, government, media practitioners and viewers in the postcolonial Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago have sought ways to build a national visual culture despite the inundation of non-local visual texts into the country. This study positions postcolonial Trinidad and …