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Nollywood Central: The Nigerian Videofilm Industry
Jade L. Miller
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Description for Nollywood Central: The Nigerian Videofilm Industry
Hardback. The first full-length study of Nollywood, exploring the rise, evolving structure and global connections of Nigeria's popular movie industry. Based on extensive fieldwork, this critical text redefines our understanding of global media flows while analysing the commercial and professional practices of one of the most prolific media industries. Series: International Screen Industries. Num Pages: 184 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; APF; JFD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 241 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
Nollywood is often portrayed by the popular press as an unruly industry, with mysteriously fast and cheap production and shadowy distribution networks. In the first overview of Nigeria's burgeoning video film industry, Jade L. Miller reveals that this portrayal is over-simplistic and often untrue. Investigating Nollywood's complete global production and distribution chain, Nollywood Central presents a full portrait of the Nollywood industry as both highly organised and strategically structured. In doing so, it interrogates the position and rise of new cultural industry hubs, demonstrating how a creative industry can emerge, be sustainable and circulate globally even though it ... Read more
Nollywood is often portrayed by the popular press as an unruly industry, with mysteriously fast and cheap production and shadowy distribution networks. In the first overview of Nigeria's burgeoning video film industry, Jade L. Miller reveals that this portrayal is over-simplistic and often untrue. Investigating Nollywood's complete global production and distribution chain, Nollywood Central presents a full portrait of the Nollywood industry as both highly organised and strategically structured. In doing so, it interrogates the position and rise of new cultural industry hubs, demonstrating how a creative industry can emerge, be sustainable and circulate globally even though it ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
International Screen Industries
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844576920
SKU
V9781844576920
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About Jade L. Miller
Jade L. Miller is Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. She works on global media industries from a geographic perspective and has been published in a number of journals, including Global Media and Communication and the International Journal of Communication.
Reviews for Nollywood Central: The Nigerian Videofilm Industry
This is a book of outmost significance for the understanding of the cultural industries in the context of globalization. Against the simplistic perception of a Hollywood-center world of audiovisual production, it shows how cultural, economic, and institutional specificity shape the production and distribution process of movies in Africa, drawing key lessons for other regions. It should be mandatory reading for ... Read more