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Nigerian film culture and the idea of the nation : Nollywood and national narration / edited by James Tar Tsaaior and Françoise Ugochukwu.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.N55 N554 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Nigeria.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Production and direction.
- Nigeria.
- Motion pictures, Nigerian.
- Motion pictures--Production and direction--Nigeria.
- Physical Description:
- 309 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London, United Kingdom : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, [2017]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Another Tower of Babel or a Future of Possibilities? the Language of Nollywood and the Politics of Cultural Communication in Postcolonial Nigeria / James Tar Tsaaior
- ch. Two Changing Nigerian Cultures: Two Films against Witchcraft and an Impossible Dialogue / Francoise Ugochukwu
- ch. Three Setting the Agenda for Women's Liberation and Empowerment in Nigeria through Movies: An Analysis of Women's Cot, Women in Power and the Bank Manager / Aje-Ori Agbese
- ch. Four Archiving Hausa Popular Entertainment through New Media Technology: An Assessment of the Recreation of Wuwan Bagaja into Video Movie / Asabe Kabir Usman
- ch. Five Culture, Media Technology and Globalisation: the Case of Folktales in Kannywood Videos / Yusuf Baba Gar
- ch. Six Mediating Countercultural Practices in Nollywood: Violence as Rebellion and Commodity in Liquid Black Gold / Philip Aghoghovwia
- ch. Seven Nollywood Unbound: Benin Language Video Films as Paradigm / Osakue Stevenson Omoera
- ch. Eight The Remediation of Religion in a Visual Culture: Understanding the Interaction of Media, New Religious Experience and Globalisation / Damian Amana
- ch. Nine Realism in Nollywood Films: the Materiality of Lagos and the Nigerian Video Film Industry / Alessandto Jedlowski
- ch. Ten Charting Moral Geographies: Nollywood and the Concept of the Nation / Nomusa Makhubu
- ch. Eleven Binaries and Ambivalences: An Analysis of Two Nollywood Actors' Spatial Discourses / Allen Adum
- ch. Twelve The Healing Word: the Significance of Orality in Nigerian Home Videos / Nkechinyere Mbakwe
- ch. Thirteen Of Film and Literature: Connections and Disconnections / Tunde Onikoyi.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1909112747
- 9781909112742
- OCLC:
- 989700292
- Publisher Number:
- 99975432211
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