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Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry

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Description for Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry Paperback.

Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In 15 lively essays, this volume traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the African continent and the rest of the world. Topics such as Nollywood as a theoretical construct, the development of a new, critical film language, and Nollywood's transformation outside of Nigeria reveal the broader implications of this film form as it travels and develops. Highlighting controversies surrounding commodification, globalization, and the development of the film industry on a wider scale, this volume gives sustained attention to Nollywood as a uniquely African cultural ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
382
Condition
New
Number of Pages
382
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253009357
SKU
V9780253009357
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About Krings
Matthias Krings is Professor of Anthropology and African Popular Culture at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Onookome Okome is Professor of African Literature and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada.

Reviews for Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry
The book compiles a range of pieces of high-quality academic work, dealing with Nollywood's transnational production, its uptake in different places in the world, and the various needs it serves of its many different audience groups in Africa and the diaspora. It also unveils a fascinating variety of the ways in which Nollywood cinema is viewed and interpreted, culturally remediated ... Read more

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