Indirect subjects : Nollywood's local address / Matthew H. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Matthew H., 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Nigeria--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture industry--Nigeria--History.

Motion picture industry.

Mass media and culture--Nigeria--History.

Mass media and culture.

Mass media--Political aspects--Nigeria--History.

Mass media.

Mass media policy--Nigeria.

Mass media policy.

Mass media--Political aspects.

History.

Nigeria.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"In Indirect Subjects, Matthew H. Brown argues that screen media can play spatial roles in global power relations. Brown focuses on Nollywood, Nigeria's commercial film industry, which emerged in the 1990s, but places it in the context of other local screen media, particularly state television, which has been a feature of Nigerian culture since the 1960s"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Subjects of indirect rule : Nigeria, cinema, and liberal empire

Emergency of the state : television, pedagogical imperatives, and the village headmaster

"No romance without finance" : feminine melodrama, soap opera, and the male breadwinner ideal

Breadlosers : masculine melodrama, money magic, and the moral occult economy

Specters of sovereignty : epic, gothic, and the ruins of a past that never was

"What's wrong with 419?" : comedy, corruption, and conspiratorial mirrors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Brown, Matthew Harman, 1979- Indirect subjects.

ISBN:

9781478013280

1478013281

9781478014195

1478014199

OCLC:

1204259193