Nollywood on the move
Subtitle: Nigeria on display
By: Françoise Ugochukwu
Series: LuKA, Studien zu Literaturen und Kunst Afrikas -- Bd. 7; LuKA, Studien zu Literaturen und Kunst Afrikas -- Bd. 7.
Publisher: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Trier
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9783868214987
Subjects: Motion pictures; Video recordings; Motion picture industry; History; Video recordings industry; In motion pictures; Nigerian Motion pictures; Public opinion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-223), filmography, and index.

"Films quoted": pages [225]-255.

"Film chronology": pages [256]-258.
Table of contents: title: pt. I,; title: Exposing home truths.; title: Scholars on Nollywood : a fast growing interest --; title: Achebe's legacy, from book to screen --; title: Meeting with the ghosts--Nigerian films and their ancestral ties --; title: Reflecting on history : daring to screen the hurt --; title: Threatened childhood--a disturbing reality --; title: Witchcraft, pastors and native doctors --; title: Women in need--the widows' plight --; title: Taboos--how far have we gone? -- pt. II,; title: Reaching out.; title: A nation on the road --; title: Across languages--issues in dubbing, subtitling and translation --; title: The reception of Nollywood in France --; title: The Eldorado mirage --; title: NGOs and the Nigerian screen : the film as a tool --; title: The West on Nollywood : cinematic responses --; title: Language and identity : impacting diasporic communities --; title: Sharing across cultures : an impossible dream? --; title: Taking stock and looking ahead--"tomorrow is pregnant."