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UNINA9910453159903321 |
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Garritano Carmela <1968-> |
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Titolo |
African video movies and global desires [[electronic resource] ] : a Ghanaian history / / Carmela Garritano |
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[Athens, OH], : Center for International Studies, Ohio University, 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (259 p.) |
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Collana |
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Ohio University research in international studies, Africa series ; ; no. 91 |
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384.809667 |
384/.809667 |
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Soggetti |
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Video recordings - Social aspects - Ghana |
Video recordings - Economic aspects - Ghana |
Video recordings industry - Ghana |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: African popular videos as global cultural forms -- Mapping the modern: the Gold Coast film unit and the Ghana film industry corporation -- Work, women, and worldly wealth: global video culture and the early years of local video production -- Professional movies and their global aspirations: the second wave of video production in Ghana -- Tourism and trafficking: views from abroad in the transnational travel movie -- Transcultural encounters and local imaginaries: Nollywood and the Ghanaian movie industry in the twenty-first century -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana's commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production. Produced and consumed under circumstances of dire shortage and scarcity, African video movies narrate the desires and anxieties created by Africa's incorporation into the global cultural economy. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research conducted in Ghana over a ten-year period, as well as close readings of a number of individual |
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