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-

Okome, Onookome.

Series:

African Expressive Cultures

African expressive cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--Nigeria.

Motion picture industry.

Video recordings industry--Nigeria.

Video recordings industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P>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, thi

Contents:

CONTENTS; Preface and Acknowledgments ; Nollywood and Its Diaspora: An Introduction ; Part 1. Mapping the Terrain; 1. From Nollywood to Nollyworld: Processes of Transnationalization in the Nigerian Video Film Industry; 2. Nollywood's Transportability: The Politics and Economics of Video Films as Cultural Products; Part 2. Transnational Nollywood ; 3. The Nollywood Diaspora: A Nigerian Video Genre; 4. Nollywood Made in Europe; 5. Made in America: Urban Immigrant Spaces in Transnational Nollywood Films; 6. Reversing the Filmic Gaze: Comedy and the Critique of the Postcolony in Osuofia in London

7. Nollywood and Postcolonial Predicaments: Transnationalism, Gender, and the Commoditization of Desire in Glamour GirlsPart 3. Nollywood and Its Audiences; 8. Nollywood in Urban Southern Africa: Nigerian Video Films and Their Audiences in Cape Town and Windhoek; 9. Religion, Migration, and Media Aesthetics: Notes on the Circulation and Reception of Nigerian Films in Kinshasa ; 10. "African Movies" in Barbados: Proximate Experiences of Fear and Desire; 11. Consuming Nollywood in Turin, Italy ; 12. Nigerian Videos and Their Imagined Western Audiences: The Limits of Nollywood's Transnationality

Part 4. Appropriations of Nollywood13. Transgressing Boundaries: Reinterpretation of Nollywood Films in Muslim Northern Nigeria; 14. Karishika with Kiswahili Flavor: A Nollywood Film Retold by a Tanzanian Video Narrator; 15. Bloody Bricolages: Traces of Nollywood in Tanzanian Video Films; List of Contributors; General Index; Film Title Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-253-00942-1

OCLC:

844434365