Cinematic independence : constructing the big screen in Nigeria / Noah Tsika.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsika, Noah, 1983- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Nigeria--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture theaters--Nigeria--History--20th century.

Motion picture theaters.

Motion pictures--Nigeria--Distribution--History--20th century.

Motion picture industry--Nigeria--History--20th century.

Motion picture industry.

Motion pictures, Nigerian--History--20th century.

Motion pictures, Nigerian.

Motion picture audiences--Nigeria--History--20th century.

Motion picture audiences.

Nigeria.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 262 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Cinematic Independence traces the emergence, demise, and rebirth of big-screen film exhibition in Nigeria. Film companies flocked to Nigeria in the years following independence, beginning a long history of interventions by Hollywood and corporate America. The 1980s and 90s saw a shuttering of cinemas, which were almost entirely replaced by television and direct-to-video movies. After 1999, the exhibition sector was again revitalized with the construction of multiplexes. Cinematic Independence is about the periods that straddle this disappearing act: the decades bracketing independence in 1960, and the years after 1999. At stake in both instances is the postcolony's role in global debates about the future of the movie theater. That it was eventually resurrected in the flashy form of the multiplex is not simply an achievement of commercial real estate but also a testament to cinema's persistence--its capacity to stave off annihilation or, in this case, come back from the dead"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. "The Nigeria Solution": Creative Destruction and the Making of a Media Capital

2. Enugu in Technicolor: Independent Production in Late-Colonial Nigeria

3. Ends and Beginnings: Rebuilding the Big Screen

4. Exhibiting Nollywood (and Hollywood): Multiplexes, Amusement Parks, and the Economy of Experiences in Today's Nigeria

5. Conclusion: "Affective Ambience": New Nollywood and the Persistence of Disneyfication.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Tsika, Noah, 1983- Cinematic independence.

ISBN:

9780520386099

0520386094

OCLC:

1262684813

Publisher Number:

99990488287