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Nollywood: The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres

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Description for Nollywood: The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 592.
Nigeria's Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the world's largest film industries, radically altering media environments across Africa and in the diaspora; it has also become one of African culture's most powerful and consequential expressions, powerfully shaping how Africans see themselves and are seen by others. With this book, Jonathan Haynes provides an accessible and authoritative introduction to this vast industry and its film culture. Haynes describes the major Nigerian film genres and how they relate to Nigerian society its values, desires, anxieties, and social tensions as the country and its movies have developed together over the turbulent past ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226387956
SKU
V9780226387956
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Ref
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About Jonathan Haynes
Jonathan Haynes is professor of English at Long Island University in Brooklyn. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is coauthor of Cinema and Social Change in West Africa and the editor of Nigerian Video Films.

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