Nollywood
Subtitle: popular culture and narratives of youth struggles in Nigeria
By: Paul Ugor
Series: African world series; Carolina Academic Press African world series
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Durham, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781611637779
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion picture industry; Video recordings industry; Motion pictures and youth
Notes: Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Alberta, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nollywood and globalization : popular video films and narratives of marginalized youth; title: Reinventing violence : crumbled postcolonies, the militarization of youth, and the crisis of citizenship in Issakaba I-IV; title: Gentrification, the urbanization of injustice, and youth identity politics in Nigeria : social struggles in Maroko; title: Nollywood and postmodernity : youth, fashion, and urban identity politics in Face of Africa I-III; title: African youth and the politics of the occult in the city : Living in bondage I & II; title: Nollywood, transnational sex rings, and postcolonial collateral casualties : Glamour girls I & II; title: Youth, social struggles, and the politics of culture in Nigerian video film.