Nigerian video films / edited with an introduction by Jonathan Haynes. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haynes, Jonathan.

Series:

Research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 73.

Ohio University research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 73

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video recordings--Nigeria.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 267 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

Rev. and expanded ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Center for International Studies, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

2. From Film to Video / Afolabi Adesanya 37

3. Evolving Popular Media: Nigerian Video Films / Jonathan Haynes, Onookome Okome 51

4. From Folk Opera to Soap Opera: Improvisations and Transformations in Yoruba Popular Theater / Wole Ogundele 89

5. Igbo Video Film: A Glimpse into the Cult of the Individual / Hyginus Ozo Ekwuazi 131

6. Onome: Ethnicity, Class, Gender / Onookome Okome 148

7. Women, Melodrama, and Political Critique: A Feminist Reading of Hostages, Dust to Dust, and True Confessions / Carmela Garritano 165

8. Rhetoric of Nigerian Christian Videos: The War Paradigm of The Great Mistake / Obododimma Oha 192

9. Culture and Art in Hausa Video Films / Dul Johnson 200

10. Hausa Dramas and the Rise of Video Culture in Nigeria / Brian Larkin 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-257) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-89680-418-6