Viewing African cinema in the twenty-first century : : art films and the Nollywood video revolution / / edited by Mahir Saul and Ralph A. Austen.

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Place / Publishing House:Athens : : Ohio University Press,, [2010]
2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (257 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of 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.