Making Movies The Nollywood Way

Author : Seun Oloketuyi
Publisher : Seun Oloketuyi
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Making Movies the Nollywood Way by Seun Oloketuyi Pdf

One of the failings of Nollywood has been the absence of research into what makes a production truly great. Making Movies the Nollywood Way is a compedium of unique insights into the thought process behind most of the movies made in Nollywood as well as the motivation behind the movies.The book shares the opinions and viewpoints of 21 of the most impactful Nollywood Movie Makers on how the industry operates, what its unique challenges are and what the Nollywood loving audience look for in their favorite movies. This book will help students of Theatre Arts, Researchers in Nollywood, movie enthusiasts and anyone seeking knowledge about the industry.

Author : Oluwasegun Babatunde
Publisher : Storibud Limited
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9798859800582

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NOLLYWOOD'S PATH TO ASCENSION: lessons From Hollywood's Rise by Oluwasegun Babatunde Pdf

"The science is strong, but a test is only as good as the men carrying it out," was said by Valery Legasov in the Chernobyl Mini-series. The quote resonates with me, as do the words, "Art pieces are as formidable as the quality of work, people, and resources drawn to bring them to life." Motion pictures are among the most radical art forms, and their role as sources of entertainment on both small and big screens speaks volumes. For more than a century, people have been making movies, and this trend will continue as long as people exist. In Nigeria's Nollywood, much has been accomplished, and much more is awaited. Therefore, the need to caution, educate, and take bold steps is greatly warranted. Nollywood's Path To Ascension (NPTA) aims to provide practical guidance and steps to reach the zenith.

Author : Emily Witt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0997126485

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Nollywood by Emily Witt Pdf

How did Nigeria create the second largest movie industry in the world? Nollywood began in Nigeria in the 1990s and has grown into the second largest film industry in the world in the number of films produced annually, behind only Bollywood and ahead of Hollywood. Reporter Emily Witt travels to Nigeria to offer a vivid, rollicking tour of the industry today. She meets with young filmmakers and actors trying to break into the industry, covers start-ups trying to digitalize what has been largely an economy based on piracy, and documents the shooting of a historic epic in the northern city of Jos, which is emerging after years of civil conflict and a brutal attack by Boko Haram. The Nigerian movie industry, like Nigeria itself, is an organized chaos, but amid electricity cuts, fuel scarcity, and countless other obstacles its producers are pursuing the very real possibility that Nigerian movies could become a global brand as recognizable as the Bollywood musical, the Hong Kong kung fu flick, or the Hollywood blockbuster.

Author : Priscillia M. Manjoh
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783643964274

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Angri by Priscillia M. Manjoh Pdf

‘A highly original, insightful, thought-provoking and enjoyable novel’Kashim I. Tala, VC. American Institute of Cameroon‘An exciting, inspiring, and much anticipated novel’Africa Positive Magazine, GermanyWith her second novel Angri, Priscillia M. Manjoh fashions a contemporary narrative style that, not unlike Voltaire’s satirical eighteenth-century ‘Candide: Or Optimism’, straddles tonalities of epic and realist literature—a style she calls ‘faction’, a mix of fact and fiction. Moving through the landscape of her troubled, and traumatised country in Africa, the protagonist, Joey Muki, tries to make sense of division, disaster and atrocity, all the while working towards encouraging emerging solidarities, addressing justice and responsibility. Amidst the debris of armed insurrection, violence, and arrogance, Angri is about the will of women to act on their political cultures and social livelihoods.Dr. Norman Saadi Nikro, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin Germany Priscillia M. Manjoh was born and raised in Cameroon and presently resides in Berlin Germany.

Author : Saheed Aderinto,Paul Osifodunrin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443847124

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The Third Wave of Historical Scholarship on Nigeria by Saheed Aderinto,Paul Osifodunrin Pdf

This festschrift in honor of Professor Ayodeji Olukoju, one of Nigeria’s brightest historians, brings together scholarship representative of the third wave of historical scholarship on Nigeria. Olukoju, a pioneering historian of Nigerian maritime history, also produced significant revisionist scholarship in the areas of economic, urban, and infrastructure history. The contributions in this volume epitomize the groundbreaking directions of his career; they are marked by a search for new explanations and venture into uncharted terrain in Nigerian history. Aside from its critical engagement of Olukoju’s impressive scholarship, this volume presents chapters on such underresearched aspects of Nigerian history as sexuality, children and youth, crime, memory, and HIV/AIDS. It offers historical explanations of a host of development challenges confronting Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, and resilient reinterpretations of the place of history in nation building. The contributors, pioneering experts in their various subfields, bring their research and teaching experience to the fore and deploy neglected data as they unfold topics that shed light on Nigeria, its peoples, and cultures. They show that history, both as a daily practice and as an academic endeavor, remains vital as Africans seek solutions to the continent’s critical development challenges.

Author : Jade L. Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838717377

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Nollywood Central by Jade L. Miller Pdf

Nollywood is often portrayed by the popular press as an unruly industry, with mysteriously fast and cheap production and shadowy distribution networks. In the first overview of Nigeria's burgeoning video film industry, Jade L. Miller reveals that this portrayal is over-simplistic and often untrue. Investigating Nollywood's complete global production and distribution chain, Nollywood Central presents a full portrait of the Nollywood industry as both highly organised and strategically structured. In doing so, it interrogates the position and rise of new cultural industry hubs, demonstrating how a creative industry can emerge, be sustainable and circulate globally even though it exists outside of formal global networks and government-supported infrastructure. Deepening understanding of this prolific industry while at the same time contributing to debates surrounding global flows of culture, this is a critical resource for students and scholars of Media and Communication Studies, Film Studies, Television Studies and African Studies.

Author : Brian J. Hracs,Roberta Comunian,Lauren England
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000441048

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Developing Creative Economies in Africa by Brian J. Hracs,Roberta Comunian,Lauren England Pdf

Bringing together the experience of academics and practitioners, this book discusses creative economies in Africa, focusing on changing dynamics related to working, co-working and clustering. The contributors in this volume examine how strategies and opportunities such as co-working spaces, clustering and hubs facilitate the emergence of creative industries in a range of African countries including Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Nigeria, Tanzania and South Africa. They also consider the importance of creative intermediaries in providing opportunities and platforms for the development of creative economies in Africa. The chapters present a range of case studies and practices that engage with how creative and cultural producers embrace some of the limits and challenges of their local context to creatively deliver opportunities for economic as well as social and cultural development in their cities and regions. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and professionals researching the creative economies in Africa across the humanities and social sciences. All the royalties from the publication of this book will be donated to the not-for-profit organisation The Craft and Design Institute (CDI) (https://www.thecdi.org.za/) in South Africa, supporting capacity building for young creative practitioners from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Author : Valerie Howard
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458371478

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Valerie Howard's Guide to African Movies & Nollywood by Valerie Howard Pdf

Author : Kevin Archer,M. Martin Bosman,M. Mark Amen,Ella Schmidt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317996637

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Cultures of Globalization by Kevin Archer,M. Martin Bosman,M. Mark Amen,Ella Schmidt Pdf

Much has been written about the economic and political implications of the contemporary process of globalization. Much less has been written about the specific cultural implications. Previously published as a special issue of Globalizations, this book seeks to add to our knowledge of the latter by bringing together researchers from different disciplines with the common goal of exploring the emerging cultural relations among groups and individuals in terms of coherence and hybridity, identity and allegiance, and cooperation and conflict. As the world’s peoples increasingly travel, work, trade, recreate, and otherwise communicate with each other, relative cultural isolation (and isolationism) is becoming less and less possible. What does this mean for cultural coherence, stability and identity across the planet? What have been the cultural implications of, and reactions to, this increasing global interdependence among peoples? From more global and theoretical perspectives to more empirical and case-specific approaches, the various authors attempt to come to terms with the ever evolving and complex cultural content of contemporary globalization.

Author : Taiwo Afolabi,Olusola Ogunnubi,Shadrach Teryila Ukuma
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811906411

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Re-centering Cultural Performance and Orange Economy in Post-colonial Africa by Taiwo Afolabi,Olusola Ogunnubi,Shadrach Teryila Ukuma Pdf

This book explores the role of national theatres, national cultural centres, cultural policy, festivals, and the film industry as creative and cultural performances hubs for exercising soft power and cultural diplomacy. It shows how can existing cultural and non-cultural infrastructures, sometimes referred to as the Orange Economy, open opportunities for diplomacy and soft power; ways by which cultural performance and creative practice can be re-centered in post-colonial Africa and in post-global pandemic era; and existing structures that cultural performers, diplomats, administrators, cultural entrepreneurs, and managers can leverage to re-enact cultural performance and creative practice on the continent. This volume is positioned within postcolonial discourse to amplify narratives, experiences and realities that are anti-oppressive especially within critical discourse.

Author : Lindsey B. Green-Simms
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781478022633

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Queer African Cinemas by Lindsey B. Green-Simms Pdf

In Queer African Cinemas, Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the twenty-first century in an environment of increasing antiqueer violence, efforts to criminalize homosexuality, and other state-sanctioned homophobia. Green-Simms argues that these films not only record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability many queer Africans experience; they highlight how queer African cinematic practices contribute to imagining new hopes and possibilities. Examining globally circulating international art films as well as popular melodramas made for local audiences, Green-Simms emphasizes that in these films queer resistance—contrary to traditional narratives about resistance that center overt and heroic struggle—is often practiced from a position of vulnerability. By reading queer films alongside discussions about censorship and audiences, Green-Simms renders queer African cinema as a rich visual archive that documents the difficulty of queer existence as well as the potentials for queer life-building and survival.

Author : Omotayo O. Banjo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351660198

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Media Across the African Diaspora by Omotayo O. Banjo Pdf

This volume gathers scholarship from varying disciplinary perspectives to explore media owned or created by members of the African diaspora, examine its relationship with diasporic audiences, and consider its impact on mainstream culture in general. Contributors highlight creations and contributions of people of the African diaspora, the interconnections of Black American and African-centered media, and the experiences of audiences and users across the African diaspora, positioning members of the Black and African Diaspora as subjects of their own narratives, active participants and creators. In so doing, this volume addresses issues of identity, culture, audiences, and global influence. Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Izuu Nwankw?
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781920033873

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Yabbing and Wording by Izuu Nwankw? Pdf

Yabbing and Wording: The artistry of Nigerian stand-up comedy is a long-overdue academic interrogation of the novel stand-up practice in Nigeria as performance. 'Yabbing' comes from the Nigerian Pidgin English verb, 'yab', which means a satirical jibe thrown at individuals, groups or institutions. Nigeria's Fela Anikulapo-Kuti used this effectively in his recorded and live music performances against successive military regimes. 'Wording' derives from the English term 'word' and refers to a game in which parties exchange insults. It is a modern-day coinage for traditional forms of joking that existed across Nigeria and elsewhere in precolonial times. In this book, Nwankw? identifies 'yabbing' and 'wording' as outstanding indigenous elements within contemporary stand-up practice in Nigeria. On the one hand, these local joking patterns inform how comedians fashion their narratives. On the other, they mitigate offence and how the audience responds to ridicule in joke performance venues. The book's strength is its academic perspective and the inclusion of as many examples of stand-up and comedians as possible, to give a panoramic view of the practice. It also traces the historical path of the development of professional stand-up comedy in Nigeria. Its closing chapters detail the global outreach of Nigerian stand-up while also anticipating its future developments.

Author : Saër Maty Bâ,Will Higbee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415687836

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De-westernizing Film Studies by Saër Maty Bâ,Will Higbee Pdf

This edited collection brings together international scholars and filmmakers with research expertise across a range of non-Western film cultures, but who have one shared aim: to challenge and offer alternatives to Eurocentric theoretical, historical perspectives in film studies.

Author : Matthew H. Brown
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478021506

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Indirect Subjects by Matthew H. Brown Pdf

In Indirect Subjects, Matthew H. Brown analyzes the content of the prolific Nigerian film industry's mostly direct-to-video movies alongside local practices of production and circulation to show how screen media play spatial roles in global power relations. Scrutinizing the deep structural and aesthetic relationship between Nollywood, as the industry is known, and Nigerian state television, Brown tracks how several Nollywood films, in ways similar to both state television programs and colonial cinema productions, invite local spectators to experience liberal capitalism not only as a form of exploitation but as a set of expectations about the future. This mode of address, which Brown refers to as “periliberalism,” sustains global power imbalances by locating viewers within liberalism but distancing them from its processes and benefits. Locating the wellspring of this hypocrisy in the British Empire's practice of indirect rule, Brown contends that culture industries like Nollywood can sustain capitalism by isolating ordinary African people, whose labor and consumption fuel it, from its exclusive privileges.