Viewing African cinema in the twenty-first century : art films and the Nollywood video revolution / edited by Mahir Șaul and Ralph A. Austen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saul, Mahir, 1951- editor.

Austen, Ralph A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video recordings--Social aspects--Nigeria.

Video recordings.

Video recordings--Social aspects--Ghana.

Video recordings industry--Nigeria.

Video recordings industry.

Video recordings industry--Ghana.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--Africa, West.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Viewing African cinema in the 21st century

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

African cinema in the 1960's originated mainly from Francophone countries. It resembled the art cinema of contemporary Europe and relied on support from the French film industry and the French state. Beginning in1969 the biennial Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), held in Burkina Faso, became the major showcase for these films. But since the early 1990's, a new phenomenon has come to dominate the African cinema world: mass-marketed films shot on less expensive video cameras. These "Nollywood" films, so named because many originate in southern Nigeria

Contents:

Introduction / Ralph A. Austen and Mahir Șaul

The "problem" of Nollywood. What is to be done? film studies and Nigerian and Ghanaian videos / Jonathan Haynes

Nollywood and its critics / Onookome Okome

Ghanaian popular video movies between state film policies and Nollywood : discourses and tensions / Birgit Meyer

Islam, Hausa culture, and censorship in Northern Nigerian video film / Abdalla Uba Adamu

Nollywood goes east : the localization of Nigerian video films in Tanzania / Matthias Krings

Imported films and their African audiences. Commentary and orality in African film reception / Vincent Bouchard

Songs, stories, action! audience preferences in Tanzania, 1950s-1980s / Laura Fair

FESPACO/art film in the light of Nollywood. Art, politics, and commerce in francophone African cinema / Mahir Șaul

Outside the machine? donor values and the case of film in Tanzania / Jane Bryce

Emitaï : basic stylistic elements: shot length, camera movement, and character movement / Peter Rist

Curses, nightmares, and realities : cautionary pedagogy in FESPACO films and Igbo videos / Stefan Sereda

The return of the Mercedes : from Ousmane Sembene to Kenneth Nnebue / Lindsey Green-Simms

U.S. distribution of African film : California Newsreel's Library of African Cinema : a case study / Cornelius Moore.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780821443507

082144350X

OCLC:

794925014