Viewing African cinema in the twenty-first century : art films and the Nollywood video revolution /

Viewing African cinema in the twenty-first century : art films and the Nollywood video revolution / Viewing African cinema in the 21st century edited by Mahir Saul and Ralph A. Austen. - 1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Video recordings--Social aspects--Nigeria.
Video recordings--Social aspects--Ghana.
Video recordings industry--Nigeria.
Video recordings industry--Ghana.
Motion pictures--Social aspects--Africa, West.


Electronic books.

PN1992.934.N6 / V54 2010

791.4309669/090511