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1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations |
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction / Ralph A. Austen and Mahir Saul -- The "problem" of Nollywood. What is to be done? film studies and Nigerian and Ghanaian videos / Jonathan Haynes -- Nollywood and its critics / Onookome Okome -- Ghanaian popular video movies between state film policies and Nollywood : discourses and tensions / Birgit Meyer -- Islam, Hausa culture, and censorship in Northern Nigerian video film / Abdalla Uba Adamu -- Nollywood goes east : the localization of Nigerian video films in Tanzania / Matthias Krings -- Imported films and their African audiences. Commentary and orality in African film reception / Vincent Bouchard --Songs, stories, action! audience preferences in Tanzania, 1950s-1980s / Laura Fair -- FESPACO/art film in the light of Nollywood. Art, politics, and commerce in francophone African cinema / Mahir Saul -- Outside the machine? donor values and the case of film in Tanzania / Jane Bryce -- Emitai : basic stylistic elements: shot length, camera movement, and character movement / Peter Rist -- Curses, nightmares, and realities : cautionary pedagogy in FESPACO films and Igbo videos / Stefan Sereda -- The return of the Mercedes : from Ousmane Sembene to Kenneth Nnebue / Lindsey Green-Simms -- U.S. distribution of African film : California Newsreel's Library of African Cinema : a case study / Cornelius Moore. |
Note |
Description based on print version record. |
Subject |
Video recordings -- Social aspects -- Nigeria.
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Video recordings -- Social aspects -- Ghana.
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Video recordings industry -- Nigeria.
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Video recordings industry -- Ghana.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Africa, West.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Saul, Mahir, 1951- editor.
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Austen, Ralph A., editor.
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Added Title |
Viewing African cinema in the 21st century |
Other Form: |
Print version: Viewing African cinema in the twenty-first century : art films and the Nollywood video revolution. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2010] vii, 248 pages ; 23 cm 9780821419304 (OCoLC)ocn495780032 (DLC)10907653 |
ISBN |
9780821419304 (hc : alk. paper) |
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0821419307 (hc : alk. paper) |
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9780821419311 (pb : alk. paper) |
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0821419315 (pb : alk. paper) |
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9780821443507 (electronic bk.) |
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