Viewing African cinema in the twenty-first century
Subtitle: art films and the Nollywood video revolution
By: edited by Mahir Șaul and Ralph A. Austen
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780821419304; 9780821419311; 9780821443507
Subjects: Motion pictures; Video recordings industry; Video recordings
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Ralph A. Austen and Mahir Șaul; title: The "problem" of Nollywood. What is to be done? film studies and Nigerian and Ghanaian videos / Jonathan Haynes; title: Nollywood and its critics / Onookome Okome; title: Ghanaian popular video movies between state film policies and Nollywood : discourses and tensions / Birgit Meyer; title: Islam, Hausa culture, and censorship in Northern Nigerian video film / Abdalla Uba Adamu; title: Nollywood goes east : the localization of Nigerian video films in Tanzania / Matthias Krings; title: Imported films and their African audiences. Commentary and orality in African film reception / Vincent Bouchard; title: Songs, stories, action! audience preferences in Tanzania, 1950s-1980s / Laura Fair; title: FESPACO/art film in the light of Nollywood. Art, politics, and commerce in francophone African cinema / Mahir Șaul; title: Outside the machine? donor values and the case of film in Tanzania / Jane Bryce; title: Emitaï : basic stylistic elements: shot length, camera movement, and character movement / Peter Rist; title: Curses, nightmares, and realities : cautionary pedagogy in FESPACO films and Igbo videos / Stefan Sereda; title: The return of the Mercedes : from Ousmane Sembene to Kenneth Nnebue / Lindsey Green-Simms; title: U.S. distribution of African film : California Newsreel's Library of African Cinema : a case study / Cornelius Moore.