Nigerian Film Culture And The Idea Of The Nation
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Nigerian Film Culture and the Idea of the Nation
Author | : Tsaaior, James Tar,Ugochukwu, Françoise |
Publsiher | : Adonis and Abbey Publishers |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2017-09-17 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781909112742 |
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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.
Re centering Cultural Performance and Orange Economy in Post colonial Africa
Author | : Taiwo Afolabi,Olusola Ogunnubi,Shadrach Teryila Ukuma |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2022-09-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789811906411 |
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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.
Nollywood in Glocal Perspective
Author | : Bala A. Musa |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2019-11-16 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9783030306632 |
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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.
Film Policy for Nigeria
Author | : Nigerian Film Corporation |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Motion picture industry |
ISBN | : UVA:X002436711 |
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African Cinema
Author | : Manthia Diawara |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1992-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 025320707X |
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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.
Nigerian Video Films
Author | : Jonathan Haynes |
Publsiher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Motion pictures |
ISBN | : 9780896802117 |
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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.
Nigerian Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century
Author | : S. J. Timothy-Asobele |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Cultural diplomacy |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105111527003 |
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Auteuring Nollywood
Author | : Afolayan, Adeshina |
Publsiher | : University Press, Nigeria |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2015-02-28 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9789780698287 |
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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