Nigerian Film Culture And The Idea Of The Nation
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Nigerian Film Culture And The Idea Of The Nation
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Author : Tsaaior, James Tar
language : en
Publisher: Adonis and Abbey Publishers
Release Date : 2017-09-17
Nigerian Film Culture And The Idea Of The Nation written by Tsaaior, James Tar and has been published by Adonis and Abbey Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-17 with Performing Arts categories.
Collectively, the essays brought together in this book represent a discursive confluence on Nollywood as a local film culture with a global character, aspiration and reach. The governing concern of the book is that texts, including film texts, are animated by a particular sociology and anthropology which gives them concrete existence and meaning. The book argues that Nollywood, the Nigerian video film text, is deeply rooted in the sub-soil of its social and cultural milieux. Nollywood is therefore, engaged in the relentless negotiation and re-negotiation of the everyday lives of the people against the backdrop of their cultural traditions, social contradictions and the politics of their ethnic/national identity, longing and belonging. The essays weave an intricate and delicate argument about the critical role of Nollywood to the idea of nationhood and the logic of its narration with implications for language, politics and culture in Africa. The book is a valuable addition to the critical discourse on the important place of film and cinema studies in national engineering processes.
Nollywood In Glocal Perspective
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Author : Bala A. Musa
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-11-16
Nollywood In Glocal Perspective written by Bala A. Musa and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-16 with Performing Arts categories.
This book gives a panoramic view of the rise and growth of Nollywood, Nigeria’s movie and home video entertainment industry, into the second largest and most prolific movie-producing industry in the world. It offers an analysis of Nollywood’s influence as a local and global cultural force. Scholars from Africa, the African Diaspora and beyond examine the factors that have shaped Nollywood’s unique story-telling, production, and distribution system. The volume shows how internal and external economic, social, cultural and technological changes intersect to define Nollywood’s film-making and entertainment ethos. It is grounded in sound theoretical perspectives that help readers understand the texts and subtexts of the industry’s emergence, transformation, and impact. The range of subjects covered span Nollywood’s historical roots in Nigeria pre-colonial traveling/community theatre to colonial era film-making, and its contemporary spin-offs and inspired cousins across Africa and in Europe. It illuminates the interface of artistic, business, cultural and technological innovation and creativity at the heart of Africa’s local and global pop culture explosion.
Re Centering Cultural Performance And Orange Economy In Post Colonial Africa
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Author : Taiwo Afolabi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-09-29
Re Centering Cultural Performance And Orange Economy In Post Colonial Africa written by Taiwo Afolabi and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-29 with Political Science categories.
This book explores the role of national theatres, national cultural centres, cultural policy, festivals, and the film industry as creative and cultural performances hubs for exercising soft power and cultural diplomacy. It shows how can existing cultural and non-cultural infrastructures, sometimes referred to as the Orange Economy, open opportunities for diplomacy and soft power; ways by which cultural performance and creative practice can be re-centered in post-colonial Africa and in post-global pandemic era; and existing structures that cultural performers, diplomats, administrators, cultural entrepreneurs, and managers can leverage to re-enact cultural performance and creative practice on the continent. This volume is positioned within postcolonial discourse to amplify narratives, experiences and realities that are anti-oppressive especially within critical discourse.
Film Policy For Nigeria
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Author : Nigerian Film Corporation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Film Policy For Nigeria written by Nigerian Film Corporation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Motion picture industry categories.
African Cinema
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Author : Manthia Diawara
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1992-04-22
African Cinema written by Manthia Diawara and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-04-22 with History categories.
Manthia Diawara provides an insider's account of the history and current status of African cinema. African Cinema: Politics and Culture is the first extended study in English of Sub-Saharan cinema. Employing an interdisciplinary approach which draws on history, political science, economics, and cultural studies, Diawara discusses such issues as film production and distribution, and film aesthetics from the colonial period to the present. The book traces the growth of African cinema through the efforts of pioneer filmmakers such as Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Oumarou Ganda, Jean-René Débrix, Jean Rouch, and Ousmane Sembène, the Pan-African Filmmakers' Organization (FEPACI), and the Ougadougou Pan-African Film Festival (FESPACO). Diwara focuses on the production and distribution histories of key films such as Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl and Mandabi (1968) and Souleymane Cissé's Fine (1982). He also examines the role of missionary films in Africa, Débrix's ideas concerning 'magic, ' the links between Yoruba theater and Nigerian cinema, and the parallels between Hindu mythologicals in India and the Yoruba-theater - inflected films in Nigeria. Diawara also looks at film and nationalism, film and popular culture, and the importance of FESPACO. African Cinema: Politics and Culture makes a major contribution to the expanding discussion of Eurocentrism, the canon, and multi-culturalism.
Auteuring Nollywood
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Author : Afolayan, Adeshina
language : en
Publisher: University Press, Nigeria
Release Date : 2015-02-28
Auteuring Nollywood written by Afolayan, Adeshina and has been published by University Press, Nigeria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-28 with Performing Arts categories.
Beginning from an auteur standpoint, this book interrogates extant cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigerian postcolonial realities in Nollywood. It makes a case, using Kunle Afolayan's The Figurine, for a critical space-clearing gesture around the notion of a neo-Nollywood, which transcends the formulaic cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigerian realities to embrace a visionary and philosophic rearticualtion of the role of film-making, and of Nollywood, in the Nigerian imagination. The Idea of neo-Nollywood, and a visionary director, therefore stands at the core of a cinematic production process that challenges, disturbs and stimulates perceptions of current and future African identities
Audience Reception Of Benin Cinema In Nigeria
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Author : Osakue Stevenson Omoera
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2024-03-19
Audience Reception Of Benin Cinema In Nigeria written by Osakue Stevenson Omoera and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-19 with Performing Arts categories.
This book signposts Benin (Edo) cinema as one of the vibrant new frontiers in the performing arts of Nigeria, underscoring this with critical empirical evidence. It is among the pioneering studies in this area of media production in African indigenous popular culture. In a very concrete sense, Benin cinema is a contemporary visual encyclopedia of Benin culture that can be used to consolidate the relevance of indigenous language films in Nigeria as a potential tool for national integration and international cultural diplomacy. The book interrogates the Benin-speaking audience’s reception of Benin films in Nollywood, covering both its history and its robust filmography, which is largely unexplored in present African film and media literature. Undergraduate and postgraduate students of film, theatre arts, mass communication, cultural studies, and African studies will find it an invaluable companion. Film and media studies scholars, global Nollywood practitioners, cultural archivists, and organizers of film festivals and book fairs will also find it useful.
Signal And Noise
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Author : Brian Larkin
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2008-03-31
Signal And Noise written by Brian Larkin and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-31 with History categories.
Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point. Concentrating on the Muslim city of Kano in the north of Nigeria, Larkin charts how the material qualities of technologies and the cultural ambitions they represent feed into the everyday experiences of urban Nigeria. Media technologies were introduced to Nigeria by colonial regimes as part of an attempt to shape political subjects and create modern, urban Africans. Larkin considers the introduction of media along with electric plants and railroads as part of the wider infrastructural project of colonial and postcolonial urbanism. Focusing on radio networks, mobile cinema units, and the building of cinema theaters, he argues that what media come to be in Kano is the outcome of technology’s encounter with the social formations of northern Nigeria and with norms shaped by colonialism, postcolonial nationalism, and Islam. Larkin examines how media technologies produce the modes of leisure and cultural forms of urban Africa by analyzing the circulation of Hindi films to Muslim Nigeria, the leisure practices of Hausa cinemagoers in Kano, and the dynamic emergence of Nigerian video films. His analysis highlights the diverse, unexpected media forms and practices that thrive in urban Africa. Signal and Noise brings anthropology and media together in an original analysis of media’s place in urban life.
Viewing African Cinema In The Twenty First Century
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Author : Mahir Saul
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2010-10-12
Viewing African Cinema In The Twenty First Century written by Mahir Saul and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-12 with Art categories.
Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century brings together a set of fascinating essays by international scholars on these contrasting cinema forms.
Nigerian Cultural Diplomacy In The Twentieth Century
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Author : S. J. Timothy-Asobele
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Nigerian Cultural Diplomacy In The Twentieth Century written by S. J. Timothy-Asobele and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Cultural diplomacy categories.