Signal and Noise - Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria

Informationen zum Autor Brian Larkin is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is a coeditor of Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Klappentext Examines the role of media technologies in shaping urban Africa through an ethnographic study of popular culture in northern Nigeria. Zusammenfassung Provides a history of media in Nigeria! asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point. Concentrating on Kano! this book charts how the material qualities of technologies and the cultural ambitions they represent feed into the everyday lived world of urban Nigeria. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Infrastructure, the Colonial Sublime, and Indirect Rule 16 2. Unstable Objects: The Making of Radio in Nigeria 48 3. Majigi, Colonial Film, State Publicity, and the Political Form of Cinema 73 4. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema 123 5. Immaterial Urbanism and the Cinematic Event 146 6. Extravagant Aesthetics: Instability and the Excessive World of Nigerian Film 168 7. Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy 217 Conclusion 242 Notes 257 Bibliography 277 Index 301

Product details

• Authors: Brian Larkin, Larkin, Brian Larkin
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2008
• EAN: 9780822340904
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4090-4
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book; A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)