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

Informationen zum Autor Brian Larkin Klappentext Examines the role of media technologies in shaping urban Africa through an ethnographic study of popular culture in northern Nigeria. Zusammenfassung Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. This work provides a history and ethnography 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. 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

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Brian Larkin
• Edition: Duke University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.03.2008
• EAN: 9780822341086
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4108-6
• Pages: 277
• Thèmes: A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book; A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Médias, communication > Général, dictionnaires