Auteuring Nollywood : critical perspectives on The Figurine / edited by Adeshina Afolayan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Afolayan, Adeshina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Figurine.

Motion picture industry--Nigeria.

Motion picture industry.

Supernatural in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ibadan : University Press Plc, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Beginning from an auteur standpoint, this book interrogates extant cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigerian postcolonial realities in Nollywood. It makes a case, using Kunle Afolayan�s The Figurine, for a critical space-clearing gesture around the notion of a neo-Nollywood, which transcends the formulaic cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigeriam realities to embrace a visionary and philosophic rearticualtion of the role of filmmaking, and of Nollywood, in the Nigerian imagination. The Idea of neo-Nollywood, and a visionary director, therefore stands at the core of a cinematic production process that challenges, disturbs and stimulates perceptions of current and future African identities.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Dedication""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION. Philosophy, (Neo-) Nollywood and the African Predicament""; ""Background and motif""; ""Modernity and the imperative of vision""; ""Philosophy at Nollywood""; ""Nollywood as paradigmatic practice""; ""Neo-Nollywood as exemplary practice""; ""Why The Figurine? The Nigerian filmmaker as auteur""; ""Prefiguring The Figurine""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Part I - ARAROMIRE IN NOLLYWOOD""

""1. The Figurine: The Interplay of the Mysterious, the Orchestrated and the Coincidental""""Introduction""; ""Kunle Afolayan and the Nollywood scenario""; ""The mysterious, the orchestrated and the coincidental: Fathoming the aesthetics of suspense in The Figurine""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""2. The Figurine and the "Torn" Individual""; ""Background""; ""The problem""; ""Nollywood in perspective""; ""Nollywood's misrepresentation of Yoruba tradition""; ""Nollywood's islands of hope""; ""Of modernity and tradition""; ""The Yoruba world view""; ""Figuring out The Figurine""

""Mental map and reality""""Causality and the African mode of thought""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""3. Striving with the Gods: The Figurine and the Double-Bind of Realism and the Supernatural""; ""Introduction""; ""The magical and the empirical""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""4. Animist Order and the Ghost of Modernity in Kunle Afolayan's The Figurine""; ""Introduction""; ""Conclusion""; ""Note""; ""References""; ""5. Araromire's Cross: A Human Dilemma""; ""Introduction""; ""A further elaboration on Araromire""; ""Drawing on analogy""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""

""6. Local Going Global: Comparing the International Narrative Appeal of Araromire (The Figurine) and Love in the Time of Cholera""""Films""; ""Books""; ""7. Alter/Native Film Narratives in Nollywood and The Figurine""; ""Introduction""; ""Alter/Natives film narratives""; ""The mask code in African cinema""; ""Techniques and motif""; ""On postmodernism and The Figurine""; ""Conclusion""; ""Note""; ""References""; ""8. Nigerian Video Film and the Conundrum of Language: Observatory Notes on Kunle Afolayan's Araromire and Irapada""; ""Introduction""; ""Language and Nigerian literary arts""

""A Film maker's experiment with language in Araromire and Irapada""""Concluding remarks""; ""Filmography""; ""References""; ""Part II - NOLLYWOOD AND BEYOND""; ""9. The Home Video Industry and Nigeria's Cultural Development""; ""The background""; ""The traditional theatre films and videos""; ""The mass society and the mass media""; ""The Nigerian film versus the Nigerian home video""; ""Conclusion: Home video and television as precursors of the new media""; ""References""; ""10. Audio-Visual Griots: On the Historiography of the Indigenous Yoruba Video Film in Nigeria""

""Introduction: The Nigerian video film""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 11, 2015).

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ISBN:

9789789400690

9789400691

OCLC:

932319450