Global Nollywood : the transnational dimensions of an African video film industry / edited by Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krings, Matthias, 1967 September 26- editor.

Okome, Onookome, editor.

Series:

African expressive cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--Nigeria.

Motion picture industry.

Video recordings industry--Nigeria.

Video recordings industry.

Nigeria.

Physical Description:

viii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2013]

Summary:

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 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, this volume gives sustained attention to Nollywood as a uniquely African cultural production. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Mapping the Terrain

1 From Nollywood to Nollyworld: Processes of Transnationalization in the Nigerian Video Film Industry / Alessandro Jedlowski Jedlowski, Alessandro 25

2 Nollywood's Transportability: The Politics and Economics of Video Films as Cultural Products / Jyoti Mistry Mistry, Jyoti, Jordache A. Ellapen Ellapen, Jordache A. 46

Part 2 Transnational Nollywood

3 The Nollywood Diaspora: A Nigerian Video Genre / Jonathan Haynes Haynes, Jonathan 73

4 Nollywood Made in Europe / Sophie Samyn Samyn, Sophie 100

5 Made in America: Urban Immigrant Spaces in Transnational Nollywood Films / Claudia Hoffmann Hoffmann, Claudia 121

6 Reversing the Filmic Gaze: Comedy and the Critique of the Postcolony in Osuofia in London / Onookome Okome Okome, Onookome 139

7 Nollywood and Postcolonial Predicaments: Transnationalism, Gender, and the Commoditization of Desire in Glamour Girls / Paul Ugor Ugor, Paul 158

Part 3 Nollywood and its Audiences

8 Nollywood in Urban Southern Africa: Nigerian Video Films and Their Audiences in Cape Town and Windhoek / Heike Becker Becker, Heike 179

9 Religion, Migration, and Media Aesthetics: Notes on the Circulation and Reception of Nigerian Films in Kinshasa / Katrien Pype Pype, Katrien 199

10 "African Movies" in Barbados: Proximate Experiences of Fear and Desire / Jane Bryce Bryce, Jane 223

11 Consuming Nollywood in Turin, Italy / Giovanna Santanera Santanera, Giovanna 245

12 Nigerian Videos and Their Imagined Western Audiences: The Limits of Nollywood's Transnationality / Babson Ajibade Ajibade, Babson 264

Part 4 Appropriations of Nollywood

13 Transgressing Boundaries: Reinterpretation of Nollywood Films in Muslim Northern Nigeria / Abdalla Uba Adamu Adamu, Abdalla Uba 287

14 Karishika with Kiswahili Flavor: A Nollywood Film Retold by a Tanzanian Video Narrator / Matthias Krings Krings, Matthias 306

15 Bloody Bricolages: Traces of Nollywood in Tanzanian Video Films / Claudia Böhme Böhme, Claudia 327.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253009234

0253009235

9780253009357

0253009359

OCLC:

795177411