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Record Nr.

UNINA9910741391003321

Autore

Steedman Robin

Titolo

Creative hustling : women making and distributing films from Nairobi / / Robin Steedman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-262-37268-1

0-262-37267-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 pages)

Collana

Distribution matters

Disciplina

791.430820967625

Soggetti

Women motion picture producers and directors - Kenya - Nairobi

Motion picture producers and directors - Kenya - Nairobi

Women in the motion picture industry - Kenya - Nairobi

Motion pictures - Kenya - Nairobi - Distribution

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Female Filmmakers at Work in Nairobi -- The Makings of an Industry: Filmmaking between the Local and the Transnational -- Making Transnational Cinema -- Entrepreneurialism and Stylistic Internationalization on Screen -- Circulation and Censorship in Nairobi: On TV and Online -- Watching Film in Nairobi -- Precarity, Entrepreneurialism, and Innovation in Nairobi -- Conclusion

Sommario/riassunto

"Creative Hustling is the first book length study about Nairobi-based female filmmakers and their labor as artists and entrepreneurs. Based on original empirical research, Steedman explores how these women pair their cinematic ability with an equally apt business acumen, contributing to a narrative of what it takes to succeed as a filmmaker in Nairobi. This book theorizes "hustling" as a creative practice and an innovative mode of working-one that can teach us new lessons about what it takes to produce and distribute film today, in a global age increasingly marked by flexible and precarious work"--