Description: Global Nollywood by Matthias Krings, Onookome Okome, Alessandro Jedlowski, Jyoti Mistry, Jordache A. Ellapen, Jonathan Haynes, Sophie Samyn, Claudia Hoffmann, Paul Ugor, Heike Becker Gives sustained attention to Nollywood as a uniquely African cultural production FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In 15 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 Nollywoods 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, this volume gives sustained attention to Nollywood as a uniquely African cultural production. Notes Gives sustained attention to Nollywood as a uniquely African cultural production Author Biography Matthias Krings is Professor of Anthropology and African Popular Culture at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.Onookome Okome is Professor of African Literature and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada. Table of Contents Preface and AcknowledgmentsNollywood and Its Diaspora: An Introduction \ Matthias Krings and Onookome OkomePart 1. Mapping the Terrain 1. From Nollywood to Nollyworld: Processes of Transnationalization in the Nigerian Video Film Industry \ Alessandro Jedlowski 2. Nollywoods Transportability: The Politics and Economics of Video Films as Cultural Products \ Jyoti Mistry and Jordache A. EllapenPart 2. Transnational Nollywood 3. The Nollywood Diaspora: A Nigerian Video Genre \ Jonathan Haynes 4. Nollywood Made in Europe \ Sophie Samyn 5. Made in America: Urban Immigrant Spaces in Transnational Nollywood Films \ Claudia Hoffmann 6. Reversing the Filmic Gaze: Comedy and the Critique of the Postcolony in Osuofia in London \ Onookome Okome 7. Nollywood and Postcolonial Predicaments: Transnationalism, Gender, and the Commoditization of Desire in Glamour Girls \ Paul UgorPart 3. Nollywood and Its Audiences 8. Nollywood in Urban Southern Africa: Nigerian Video Films and Their Audiences in Cape Town and Windhoek \ Heike Becker 9. Religion, Migration, and Media Aesthetics: Notes on the Circulation and Reception of Nigerian Films in Kinshasa \ Katrien Pype 10. "African Movies" in Barbados: Proximate Experiences of Fear and Desire \ Jane Bryce 11. Consuming Nollywood in Turin, Italy \ Giovanna Santanera 12. Nigerian Videos and Their Imagined Western Audiences: The Limits of Nollywoods Transnationality \ Babson AjibadePart 4. Appropriations of Nollywood 13. Transgressing Boundaries: Reinterpretation of Nollywood Films in Muslim Northern Nigeria \ Abdalla Uba Adamu 14. Karishika with Kiswahili Flavor: A Nollywood Film Retold by a Tanzanian Video Narrator \ Matthias Krings 15. Bloody Bricolages: Traces of Nollywood in Tanzanian Video Films \ Claudia BöhmeList of ContributorsIndex Review "Reveals in fascinating detail the wild popularity, controversies, and complaints provoked by this film form as it has come to shape the media landscape of Africa."--Brian Larkin, Barnard College "Offers original material with respect to the transnational presence of Nollywood."--Moradewun Adejunmobi, University of California, Davis Promotional The impact of Nigerian video film in Africa and beyond Long Description Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In 15 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 Nollywoods 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, this volume gives sustained attention to Nollywood as a uniquely African cultural production. Review Quote "This is a wonderful collection, bringing together a bounty of new information, descriptions and ideas. . . . Overall, the book brings together a set of highly original contributions that advance knowl- edge of Nigerian video production." Promotional "Headline" The impact of Nigerian video film in Africa and beyond Details ISBN0253009359 Language English Year 2013 ISBN-10 0253009359 ISBN-13 9780253009357 Format Paperback Short Title GLOBAL NOLLYWOOD Series African Expressive Cultures Media Book Author Heike Becker Imprint Indiana University Press Subtitle The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry Place of Publication Bloomington, IN Country of Publication United States Edited by Onookome Okome UK Release Date 2013-05-27 AU Release Date 2013-05-27 NZ Release Date 2013-05-27 US Release Date 2013-05-27 Pages 382 Publisher Indiana University Press Publication Date 2013-05-27 Alternative 9780253009234 DEWEY 791.43096 Illustrations 10 b&w illus. Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:97917957;
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