Nigerian Film Culture And The Idea Of The Nation

Author : Tsaaior, James Tar,Ugochukwu, Françoise
Publisher : Adonis and Abbey Publishers
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781909112742

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Nigerian Film Culture and the Idea of the Nation by Tsaaior, James Tar,Ugochukwu, Françoise Pdf

Collectively, the essays brought together in this book represent a discursive confluence on Nollywood as a local film culture with a global character, aspiration and reach. The governing concern of the book is that texts, including film texts, are animated by a particular sociology and anthropology which gives them concrete existence and meaning. The book argues that Nollywood, the Nigerian video film text, is deeply rooted in the sub-soil of its social and cultural milieux. Nollywood is therefore, engaged in the relentless negotiation and re-negotiation of the everyday lives of the people against the backdrop of their cultural traditions, social contradictions and the politics of their ethnic/national identity, longing and belonging. The essays weave an intricate and delicate argument about the critical role of Nollywood to the idea of nationhood and the logic of its narration with implications for language, politics and culture in Africa. The book is a valuable addition to the critical discourse on the important place of film and cinema studies in national engineering processes.

Author : Taiwo Afolabi,Olusola Ogunnubi,Shadrach Teryila Ukuma
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Bala A. Musa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030306632

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Nollywood in Glocal Perspective by Bala A. Musa Pdf

This book gives a panoramic view of the rise and growth of Nollywood, Nigeria’s movie and home video entertainment industry, into the second largest and most prolific movie-producing industry in the world. It offers an analysis of Nollywood’s influence as a local and global cultural force. Scholars from Africa, the African Diaspora and beyond examine the factors that have shaped Nollywood’s unique story-telling, production, and distribution system. The volume shows how internal and external economic, social, cultural and technological changes intersect to define Nollywood’s film-making and entertainment ethos. It is grounded in sound theoretical perspectives that help readers understand the texts and subtexts of the industry’s emergence, transformation, and impact. The range of subjects covered span Nollywood’s historical roots in Nigeria pre-colonial traveling/community theatre to colonial era film-making, and its contemporary spin-offs and inspired cousins across Africa and in Europe. It illuminates the interface of artistic, business, cultural and technological innovation and creativity at the heart of Africa’s local and global pop culture explosion.

Author : Nigerian Film Corporation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : UVA:X002436711

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Film Policy for Nigeria by Nigerian Film Corporation Pdf

Author : Jonathan Haynes
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9780896802117

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Nigerian Video Films by Jonathan Haynes Pdf

Nigerian video films--dramatic features shot on video and sold as cassettes--are being produced at the rate of nearly one a day, making them the major contemporary art form in Nigeria. The history of African film offers no precedent for such a huge, popularly based industry. The contributors to this volume, who include film and television directors, an anthropologist, and scholars of film studies and literature, take a variety of approaches to this flourishing popular art. Topics include aesthetic forms and distribution; the configurations of various ethnic audiences; the new media environment dominated by cassette technology; the video's materialism in a period of economic collapse; transformation of the traditional Yoruba traveling theater; individualism and the moral crisis in Igbo society; Hausa cultural values; the negotiation of gender roles, and the genre of Christian videos.

Author : Manthia Diawara
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 025320707X

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African Cinema by Manthia Diawara Pdf

Manthia Diawara provides an insider's account of the history and current status of African cinema. African Cinema: Politics and Culture is the first extended study in English of Sub-Saharan cinema. Employing an interdisciplinary approach which draws on history, political science, economics, and cultural studies, Diawara discusses such issues as film production and distribution, and film aesthetics from the colonial period to the present. The book traces the growth of African cinema through the efforts of pioneer filmmakers such as Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Oumarou Ganda, Jean-René Débrix, Jean Rouch, and Ousmane Sembène, the Pan-African Filmmakers' Organization (FEPACI), and the Ougadougou Pan-African Film Festival (FESPACO). Diwara focuses on the production and distribution histories of key films such as Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl and Mandabi (1968) and Souleymane Cissé's Fine (1982). He also examines the role of missionary films in Africa, Débrix's ideas concerning 'magic, ' the links between Yoruba theater and Nigerian cinema, and the parallels between Hindu mythologicals in India and the Yoruba-theater - inflected films in Nigeria. Diawara also looks at film and nationalism, film and popular culture, and the importance of FESPACO. African Cinema: Politics and Culture makes a major contribution to the expanding discussion of Eurocentrism, the canon, and multi-culturalism.

Author : S. J. Timothy-Asobele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cultural diplomacy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111527003

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Nigerian Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century by S. J. Timothy-Asobele Pdf

Author : Jonathan Haynes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226387956

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Nollywood by Jonathan Haynes Pdf

The English-language branch of the Nigerian film industry, Nollywood, has become the third largest in the world. Nollywood films saturate Nigeria and have spread across the African continent, achieving an astonishing extent and depth of cultural influence. They are the most important modern cultural form to come out of Africa. In this book, Jonathan Haynes aims to map out the cultural terrain of Nollywood films much more comprehensively and ambitiously than has been to date. He in effect establishes a canon for Nollywood films. The book is organized around the historical development of Nollywood film culture, which is explored with close attention to the recent history of Nigeria. Throughout the book, genre (defined with reference to common usage in Nigerian film markets) is the principal framework. Thus after establishing a sense of the material and social circumstances out of which Nollywood was born and exploring a few landmark films, Haynes analyzes the durable set of themes and plot types that dominate the industry and reveal deeply embedded tensions in contemporary Nigerian life. These genres include family films and romances, village films, cultural epics, political films, films made in or about the Nigerian diaspora, and campus films. Haynes concludes by offering some remarks on the future of Nollywood, exploring the buzz around a New Nollywood of films with higher budgets fit for international film festivals and widespread screening in cinemas in Nigeria and abroad."

Author : Afolayan, Adeshina
Publisher : University Press, Nigeria
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789780698287

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Auteuring Nollywood by Afolayan, Adeshina Pdf

Beginning from an auteur standpoint, this book interrogates extant cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigerian postcolonial realities in Nollywood. It makes a case, using Kunle Afolayan's The Figurine, for a critical space-clearing gesture around the notion of a neo-Nollywood, which transcends the formulaic cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigerian realities to embrace a visionary and philosophic rearticualtion of the role of film-making, and of Nollywood, in the Nigerian imagination. The Idea of neo-Nollywood, and a visionary director, therefore stands at the core of a cinematic production process that challenges, disturbs and stimulates perceptions of current and future African identities

Author : Frank Aig-Imoukhuede,Nigeria. Federal Ministry of Information and Culture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016752672

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A Handbook of Nigerian Culture by Frank Aig-Imoukhuede,Nigeria. Federal Ministry of Information and Culture Pdf

Author : Jade L. Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Pierre Barrot,Ibbo Daddy Abdoulaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39076002374895

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Nollywood by Pierre Barrot,Ibbo Daddy Abdoulaye Pdf

With over 1,200 video films produced each year, Nigeria has become one of the most prolific producers of film fiction in the world. The majority of the films are of poor quality, made on very low budgets and in a very short time, but their production has a big impact on people in Nigeria and the industry's influence is extending across the continent. This book examines how the experiences and lives of Nigerians are narrated through the storyboards of the video producers, who copy with confidence and energy the recipes and formulas of popular films. As a home-grown industry that emerged spontaneously and without outside support, its vitality is a counter to 'Afro-pessimism' and demonstrates the possibility of reviving the African film industry and developing a cinema-going public to support it. PIERRE BARROT works in the Dept for Cultural Co-operation and Action at the French Embassy in Algiers, and was formerly the Regional Audio-Visual Attach at the French Embassy in Lagos. Contributors include TUNDE KELANI, OLIVIER BARLET, TUNDE OLADUNJOYE, FREDERIC NOY, DON PEDRO OBASEKI, IBBO DADDY ABDOULAYE, FRANCK BAKU FUITA, GODEFROID BWITI LUMISA & OGOVA ONDEGO Revised & updated from an earlier French edition published by Harmattan; Published in association with the French Embassy of Abuja; North America: Indiana University Press; Nigeria: HEBN

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:49015002816529

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Nigeria in the Twentieth Century by Toyin Falola Pdf

Author : Matthias Krings,Onookome Okome
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253009425

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Global Nollywood by Matthias Krings,Onookome Okome Pdf

“Reveals in fascinating detail the wild popularity, controversies, and complaints provoked by this film form . . . shap[ing] the media landscape of Africa.” —Brian Larkin, Barnard College Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In fifteen lively essays, this volume traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the African continent and the rest of the world. Topics such as Nollywood as a theoretical construct, the development of a new, critical film language, and Nollywood’s transformation outside of Nigeria reveal the broader implications of this film form as it travels and develops. Highlighting controversies surrounding commodification, globalization, and the development of the film industry on a wider scale, Global Nollywood gives sustained attention to Nollywood as a uniquely African cultural production. “Offers original material with respect to the transnational presence of Nollywood.” ?Moradewun Adejunmobi, University of California, Davis “Unveils a fascinating variety of the ways in which Nollywood cinema is viewed and interpreted.” ?Research in African Literatures “Delightfully entertaining yet appropriately erudite. . . . A welcome addition to the fields of film, media, African, and cultural studies.” —Cinema Journal “Highly recommended.” ?Choice “[T]he cumulative effect of [these] studies is to provide invaluable information for those wishing to keep up with where African cinema is today.” ?Journal of African History “Global Nollywood represents the most up-to-date research on Nollywood as a transnational cultural practice and is a must-read for scholars and students of African screen media.” —African Studies Review “Ground-breaking. . . . It proves that, in spite of appearing to be a niche market, Nollywood . . . can no longer be excluded from the canon of African cinema in the field of film studies.” ?African Affairs

Author : Brian Larkin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0822341085

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Signal and Noise by Brian Larkin Pdf

DIVExamines the role of media technologies in shaping urban Africa through an ethnographic study of popular culture in northern Nigeria./div