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Global Nollywood - The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry

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Informationen zum Autor Matthias Krings is Professor of Anthropology and African Popular Culture at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.Onookome Okome is Professor of African Literature and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada. Klappentext Matthias Krings is Professor of Anthropology and African Popular Culture at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.Onookome Okome is Professor of African Literature and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada. Zusammenfassung Gives sustained attention to Nollywood as a uniquely African cultural production Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments Nollywood and Its Diaspora: An Introduction \ Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome Part 1. Mapping the Terrain 1. From Nollywood to Nollyworld: Processes of Transnationalization in the Nigerian Video Film Industry \ Alessandro Jedlowski 2. Nollywood's Transportability: The Politics and Economics of Video Films as Cultural Products \ Jyoti Mistry and Jordache A. Ellapen Part 2. Transnational Nollywood 3. The Nollywood Diaspora: A Nigerian Video Genre \ Jonathan Haynes 4. Nollywood Made in Europe \ Sophie Samyn 5. Made in America: Urban Immigrant Spaces in Transnational Nollywood Films \ Claudia Hoffmann 6. Reversing the Filmic Gaze: Comedy and the Critique of the Postcolony in Osuofia in London \ Onookome Okome 7. Nollywood and Postcolonial Predicaments: Transnationalism, Gender, and the Commoditization of Desire in Glamour Girls \ Paul Ugor Part 3. Nollywood and Its Audiences 8. Nollywood in Urban Southern Africa: Nigerian Video Films and Their Audiences in Cape Town and Windhoek \ Heike Becker 9. Religion, Migration, and Media Aesthetics: Notes on the Circulation and Reception of Nigerian Films in Kinshasa \ Katrien Pype 10. "African Movies" in Barbados: Proximate Experiences of Fear and Desire \ Jane Bryce 11. Consuming Nollywood in Turin, Italy \ Giovanna Santanera 12. Nigerian Videos and Their Imagined Western Audiences: The Limits of Nollywood's Transnationality \ Babson Ajibade Part 4. Appropriations of Nollywood 13. Transgressing Boundaries: Reinterpretation of Nollywood Films in Muslim Northern Nigeria \ Abdalla Uba Adamu 14. Karishika with Kiswahili Flavor: A Nollywood Film Retold by a Tanzanian Video Narrator \ Matthias Krings 15. Bloody Bricolages: Traces of Nollywood in Tanzanian Video Films \ Claudia Böhme List of Contributors Index ...

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Authors Matthias (EDT)/ Okome Krings, Matthias Okome Krings, KRINGS MATTHIAS OKOME ONOOKOME
Assisted by Edited by Matthias Krings and Onookome O (Editor), Matthias Krings (Editor), Onookome Okome (Editor)
Publisher Indiana University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 27.05.2013
 
EAN 9780253009234
ISBN 978-0-253-00923-4
No. of pages 382
Series African Expressive Cultures
African Expressive Cultures
Subject Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet

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