Viewing African cinema in the twenty-first century : art films and the Nollywood video revolution / edited by Mahir Saul and Ralph A. Austen.

Contributor(s): Saul, Mahir, 1951- [editor.] | Austen, Ralph A [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2010]Copyright date: 2010Description: 1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780821443507Other title: Viewing African cinema in the 21st centurySubject(s): Video recordings -- Social aspects -- Nigeria | Video recordings -- Social aspects -- Ghana | Video recordings industry -- Nigeria | Video recordings industry -- Ghana | Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Africa, WestGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Viewing African cinema in the twenty-first century : art films and the Nollywood video revolution.DDC classification: 791.4309669/090511 LOC classification: PN1992.934.N6 | V54 2010Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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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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