Nigerian Film Culture and the Idea of the Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nigerian Film Culture and the Idea of the Nation write by Tsaaior, James Tar. This book was released on 2017-09-17. Nigerian Film Culture and the Idea of the Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collectively, the essays brought together in this book represent a discursive confluence on Nollywood as a local film culture with a global character, aspiration and reach. The governing concern of the book is that texts, including film texts, are animated by a particular sociology and anthropology which gives them concrete existence and meaning. The book argues that Nollywood, the Nigerian video film text, is deeply rooted in the sub-soil of its social and cultural milieux. Nollywood is therefore, engaged in the relentless negotiation and re-negotiation of the everyday lives of the people against the backdrop of their cultural traditions, social contradictions and the politics of their ethnic/national identity, longing and belonging. The essays weave an intricate and delicate argument about the critical role of Nollywood to the idea of nationhood and the logic of its narration with implications for language, politics and culture in Africa. The book is a valuable addition to the critical discourse on the important place of film and cinema studies in national engineering processes.
Nollywood in Glocal Perspective
Nollywood in Glocal Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nollywood in Glocal Perspective write by Bala A. Musa. This book was released on 2019-11-16. Nollywood in Glocal Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book gives a panoramic view of the rise and growth of Nollywood, Nigeria’s movie and home video entertainment industry, into the second largest and most prolific movie-producing industry in the world. It offers an analysis of Nollywood’s influence as a local and global cultural force. Scholars from Africa, the African Diaspora and beyond examine the factors that have shaped Nollywood’s unique story-telling, production, and distribution system. The volume shows how internal and external economic, social, cultural and technological changes intersect to define Nollywood’s film-making and entertainment ethos. It is grounded in sound theoretical perspectives that help readers understand the texts and subtexts of the industry’s emergence, transformation, and impact. The range of subjects covered span Nollywood’s historical roots in Nigeria pre-colonial traveling/community theatre to colonial era film-making, and its contemporary spin-offs and inspired cousins across Africa and in Europe. It illuminates the interface of artistic, business, cultural and technological innovation and creativity at the heart of Africa’s local and global pop culture explosion.
The Development and Growth of the Film Industry in Nigeria
The Development and Growth of the Film Industry in Nigeria - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Development and Growth of the Film Industry in Nigeria write by Alfred E. Opubor. This book was released on 1979. The Development and Growth of the Film Industry in Nigeria available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Global Nollywood
Global Nollywood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Nollywood write by Matthias Krings. This book was released on 2013-05-27. Global Nollywood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Reveals in fascinating detail the wild popularity, controversies, and complaints provoked by this film form . . . shap[ing] the media landscape of Africa.” —Brian Larkin, Barnard College Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In fifteen lively essays, this volume traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the African continent and the rest of the world. Topics such as Nollywood as a theoretical construct, the development of a new, critical film language, and Nollywood’s transformation outside of Nigeria reveal the broader implications of this film form as it travels and develops. Highlighting controversies surrounding commodification, globalization, and the development of the film industry on a wider scale, Global Nollywood gives sustained attention to Nollywood as a uniquely African cultural production. “Offers original material with respect to the transnational presence of Nollywood.” ?Moradewun Adejunmobi, University of California, Davis “Unveils a fascinating variety of the ways in which Nollywood cinema is viewed and interpreted.” ?Research in African Literatures “Delightfully entertaining yet appropriately erudite. . . . A welcome addition to the fields of film, media, African, and cultural studies.” —Cinema Journal “Highly recommended.” ?Choice “[T]he cumulative effect of [these] studies is to provide invaluable information for those wishing to keep up with where African cinema is today.” ?Journal of African History “Global Nollywood represents the most up-to-date research on Nollywood as a transnational cultural practice and is a must-read for scholars and students of African screen media.” —African Studies Review “Ground-breaking. . . . It proves that, in spite of appearing to be a niche market, Nollywood . . . can no longer be excluded from the canon of African cinema in the field of film studies.” ?African Affairs
Re-centering Cultural Performance and Orange Economy in Post-colonial Africa
Re-centering Cultural Performance and Orange Economy in Post-colonial Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Re-centering Cultural Performance and Orange Economy in Post-colonial Africa write by Taiwo Afolabi. This book was released on 2022-09-29. Re-centering Cultural Performance and Orange Economy in Post-colonial Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the role of national theatres, national cultural centres, cultural policy, festivals, and the film industry as creative and cultural performances hubs for exercising soft power and cultural diplomacy. It shows how can existing cultural and non-cultural infrastructures, sometimes referred to as the Orange Economy, open opportunities for diplomacy and soft power; ways by which cultural performance and creative practice can be re-centered in post-colonial Africa and in post-global pandemic era; and existing structures that cultural performers, diplomats, administrators, cultural entrepreneurs, and managers can leverage to re-enact cultural performance and creative practice on the continent. This volume is positioned within postcolonial discourse to amplify narratives, experiences and realities that are anti-oppressive especially within critical discourse.
