African video movies and global desires : a Ghanaian history / Carmela Garritano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garritano, Carmela, 1968-

Series:

Research in International Studies, Africa Series

Ohio University research in international studies, Africa series ; no. 91

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video recordings--Social aspects--Ghana.

Video recordings.

Video recordings--Economic aspects--Ghana.

Video recordings industry--Ghana.

Video recordings industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Athens, OH] : Center for International Studies, Ohio University, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana's commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production. Produced and consumed under circumstances of dire shortage and scarcity, African video movies narrate the desires and anxieties created by Africa's incorporation into the global cultural economy. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research conducted in Ghana over a ten-year period, as well as close readings of a number of individual

Contents:

Introduction: African popular videos as global cultural forms

Mapping the modern: the Gold Coast film unit and the Ghana film industry corporation

Work, women, and worldly wealth: global video culture and the early years of local video production

Professional movies and their global aspirations: the second wave of video production in Ghana

Tourism and trafficking: views from abroad in the transnational travel movie

Transcultural encounters and local imaginaries: Nollywood and the Ghanaian movie industry in the twenty-first century

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-89680-484-4

OCLC:

824733582