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Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Johnson is an Associate Professor of History and Social Sciences at Governors State University. She is the author of Resistance and Empowerment in Black Women’s Hairy Styling. She has published articles in the following journals: World Literary Review, MP: An Online Feminist Journal, and Southwest Journal of Cultures. Her research and speaking interests are grounded in group identity and critical race theory including hair aesthetics, body image, nineteenth-century U.S. history, and media representations of ethnicity and gender. Dr. Donald Culverson is a University Professor of Political Science and Justice Studies at Governors State University. He is the author of Contesting Apartheid: U. S. Activism, 1960-1987. He has published articles in the following journals: Political Science Quarterly, Race and Class, and Transafrica Forum. His research focuses on globalization and its relationship to racial inequality. Klappentext Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas investigates the role of women in nine Nollywood melodramas with attention to the changing landscape of filmmaking and film viewing. By incorporating Black feminist, audience reception, social identity, and cultivation theories, Johnson and Culverson provide insight into how identities for West African women are created and recreated through the broad interplay of Nollywood film viewing on social and individual levels. This book addresses how Nollywood is a product and contributor to evolving processes of globalization. Inhaltsverzeichnis I. Introduction II. Alternative Frames for Viewing and Thinking about Nollywood Films III. The Women of Nollywood: Suffering and Agency IV. Differential Access to Nollywood Films V. Female Directors and Producers VI. Concluding Thoughts Appendix A: Themes of suffering in the nine selected films Appendix B: Themes of agency in the nine selected films Appendix C: African/African Diasporic Film Festivals Appendix D: African female filmmakers Filmography Bibliography About the Authors ...
