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Title Global Nollywood : the transnational dimensions of an African video film industry / edited by Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome.
Publication Info Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2013]



Descript 1 online resource (viii, 371 pages) : illustrations.
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Contents Nollywood and its diaspora: an introduction / Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome -- Part 1. Mapping the terrain. From Nollywood to Nollyworld: processes of transnationalization in the Nigerian video film industry / Alessandro Jedlowski ; Nollywood's transportability: the politics and economics of video films as cultural products / Jyoti Mistry and Jordache A. Ellapen -- Part 2. Transnational Nollywood. The Nollywood diaspora: a Nigerian video genre / Jonathan Haynes ; Nollywood made in Europe / Sophie Samyn ; Made in America: urban immigrant spaces in transnational Nollywood films / Claudia Hoffmann ; Reversing the filmic gaze: comedy and the critique of the postcolony in Osuofia in London / Onookome Okome ; Nollywood and postcolonial predicaments: transnationalism, gender, and the commoditization of desire in Glamour girls / Paul Ugor -- Part 3. Nollywood and its audiences. Nollywood in urban Southern Africa: Nigerian video films and their audiences in Cape Town and Windhoek / Heike Becker ; Religion, migration, and media aesthetics: notes on the circulation and reception of Nigerian films in Kinshasa / Katrien Pype ; "African movies" in Barbados: proximate experiences of fear and desire / Jane Bryce ; Consuming Nollywood in Turin, Italy / Giovanna Santanera ; Nigerian videos and their imagined western audiences: the limits of Nollywood's transnationality / Babson Ajibade -- Part 4. Appropriations of Nollywood. Transgressing boundaries: reinterpretation of Nollywood films in Muslim Northern Nigeria / Abdalla Uba Adamu ; Karishika with Kiswahili flavor: a Nollywood film retold by a Tanzanian video narrator / Matthias Krings ; Bloody bricolages: traces of Nollywood in Tanzanian video films / Claudia Böhme.
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ISBN 9780253009425 (e-book)
0253009421 (e-book)
1299608183 (e-book)
9781299608184 (e-book)
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Series African expressive cultures
African expressive cultures.
Subject Motion picture industry -- Nigeria.
Video recordings industry -- Nigeria.
Alt author Krings, Matthias.
Okome, Onookome.
Descript 1 online resource (viii, 371 pages) : illustrations.
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Contents Nollywood and its diaspora: an introduction / Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome -- Part 1. Mapping the terrain. From Nollywood to Nollyworld: processes of transnationalization in the Nigerian video film industry / Alessandro Jedlowski ; Nollywood's transportability: the politics and economics of video films as cultural products / Jyoti Mistry and Jordache A. Ellapen -- Part 2. Transnational Nollywood. The Nollywood diaspora: a Nigerian video genre / Jonathan Haynes ; Nollywood made in Europe / Sophie Samyn ; Made in America: urban immigrant spaces in transnational Nollywood films / Claudia Hoffmann ; Reversing the filmic gaze: comedy and the critique of the postcolony in Osuofia in London / Onookome Okome ; Nollywood and postcolonial predicaments: transnationalism, gender, and the commoditization of desire in Glamour girls / Paul Ugor -- Part 3. Nollywood and its audiences. Nollywood in urban Southern Africa: Nigerian video films and their audiences in Cape Town and Windhoek / Heike Becker ; Religion, migration, and media aesthetics: notes on the circulation and reception of Nigerian films in Kinshasa / Katrien Pype ; "African movies" in Barbados: proximate experiences of fear and desire / Jane Bryce ; Consuming Nollywood in Turin, Italy / Giovanna Santanera ; Nigerian videos and their imagined western audiences: the limits of Nollywood's transnationality / Babson Ajibade -- Part 4. Appropriations of Nollywood. Transgressing boundaries: reinterpretation of Nollywood films in Muslim Northern Nigeria / Abdalla Uba Adamu ; Karishika with Kiswahili flavor: a Nollywood film retold by a Tanzanian video narrator / Matthias Krings ; Bloody bricolages: traces of Nollywood in Tanzanian video films / Claudia Böhme.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780253009425 (e-book)
0253009421 (e-book)
1299608183 (e-book)
9781299608184 (e-book)
Series African expressive cultures
African expressive cultures.
Subject Motion picture industry -- Nigeria.
Video recordings industry -- Nigeria.
Alt author Krings, Matthias.
Okome, Onookome.

Subject Motion picture industry -- Nigeria.
Video recordings industry -- Nigeria.
Descript 1 online resource (viii, 371 pages) : illustrations.
Content text txt
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Contents Nollywood and its diaspora: an introduction / Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome -- Part 1. Mapping the terrain. From Nollywood to Nollyworld: processes of transnationalization in the Nigerian video film industry / Alessandro Jedlowski ; Nollywood's transportability: the politics and economics of video films as cultural products / Jyoti Mistry and Jordache A. Ellapen -- Part 2. Transnational Nollywood. The Nollywood diaspora: a Nigerian video genre / Jonathan Haynes ; Nollywood made in Europe / Sophie Samyn ; Made in America: urban immigrant spaces in transnational Nollywood films / Claudia Hoffmann ; Reversing the filmic gaze: comedy and the critique of the postcolony in Osuofia in London / Onookome Okome ; Nollywood and postcolonial predicaments: transnationalism, gender, and the commoditization of desire in Glamour girls / Paul Ugor -- Part 3. Nollywood and its audiences. Nollywood in urban Southern Africa: Nigerian video films and their audiences in Cape Town and Windhoek / Heike Becker ; Religion, migration, and media aesthetics: notes on the circulation and reception of Nigerian films in Kinshasa / Katrien Pype ; "African movies" in Barbados: proximate experiences of fear and desire / Jane Bryce ; Consuming Nollywood in Turin, Italy / Giovanna Santanera ; Nigerian videos and their imagined western audiences: the limits of Nollywood's transnationality / Babson Ajibade -- Part 4. Appropriations of Nollywood. Transgressing boundaries: reinterpretation of Nollywood films in Muslim Northern Nigeria / Abdalla Uba Adamu ; Karishika with Kiswahili flavor: a Nollywood film retold by a Tanzanian video narrator / Matthias Krings ; Bloody bricolages: traces of Nollywood in Tanzanian video films / Claudia Böhme.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
Alt author Krings, Matthias.
Okome, Onookome.
ISBN 9780253009425 (e-book)
0253009421 (e-book)
1299608183 (e-book)
9781299608184 (e-book)

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