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Signal and noise : media, infrastructure, and urban culture in Nigeria / Brian Larkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Larkin, Brian.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- a John Hope Franklin Center Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media and technology--Nigeria--History.
- Mass media and technology.
- Mass media and culture--Nigeria--History.
- Mass media and culture.
- Nigeria--Civilization--20th century.
- Nigeria.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines the role of media technologies in shaping urban Africa through an ethnographic study of popular culture in northern Nigeria.
- Contents:
- 1 Infrastructure, the Colonial Sublime, and Indirect Rule
- 2 Unstable Objects: The Making of Radio in Nigeria
- 3 Majigi, Colonial Film, State Publicity, and the Political Form of Cinema
- 4 Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema
- 5 Immaterial Urbanism and the Cinematic Event
- 6 Extravagant Aesthetics: Instability and the Excessive World of Nigerian Film
- 7 Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- "A John Hope Franklin Center book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822389316
- 0822389312
- OCLC:
- 223445525
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