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Author Tsika, Noah, 1983- author.

Title Cinematic independence : constructing the big screen in Nigeria / Noah Tsika.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : screening Nigeria -- "The Nigeria solution" : creative destruction and the making of a media capital -- Enugu in technicolor : independent production in late-colonial Nigeria -- Ends and beginnings : rebuilding the big screen -- Exhibiting Nollywood (and Hollywood) : multiplexes, amusement parks, and the economy of experiences in today's Nigeria -- Conclusion : "affective ambience" : New Nollywood and the persistence of Disneyfication.
Summary "Cinematic Independence traces the emergence, demise, and rebirth of big-screen film exhibition in Nigeria. Film companies flocked to Nigeria in the years following independence, beginning a long history of interventions by Hollywood and corporate America. The 1980s and 90s saw a shuttering of cinemas, which were almost entirely replaced by television and direct-to-video movies. After 1999, the exhibition sector was again revitalized with the construction of multiplexes. Cinematic Independence is about the periods that straddle this disappearing act: the decades bracketing independence in 1960, and the years after 1999. At stake in both instances is the postcolony's role in global debates about the future of the movie theater. That it was eventually resurrected in the flashy form of the multiplex is not simply an achievement of commercial real estate but also a testament to cinema's persistence--its capacity to stave off annihilation or, in this case, come back from the dead"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Motion pictures -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century.
Motion picture theaters -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century.
Cinéma -- Nigeria -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
History / Africa / West.
Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism.
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African Studies.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Motion picture theaters
Motion pictures
Nigeria
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Tsika, Noah, 1983- Cinematic independence Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022] 9780520386099 (DLC) 2021029641
ISBN 0520386108
9780520386105 (electronic bk.)
9780520386099 (paperback)
Standard No. AU@ 000070440694
AU@ 000069730933
DKDLA 125600-katalog:m2z4tcs6kfs339p0

 
    
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