03184nam 2200637Ia 450 991082404770332120240405000128.00-89680-484-4(CKB)2550000001038530(EBL)1743656(OCoLC)824733582(SSID)ssj0000827161(PQKBManifestationID)11519018(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000827161(PQKBWorkID)10838782(PQKB)11675405(MiAaPQ)EBC1743656(MdBmJHUP)muse25652(Au-PeEL)EBL1743656(CaPaEBR)ebr10645193(EXLCZ)99255000000103853020130112d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAfrican video movies and global desires a Ghanaian history /Carmela Garritano1st ed.[Athens, OH] Center for International Studies, Ohio University20131 online resource (259 p.)Ohio University research in international studies, Africa series ;no. 91Description based upon print version of record.0-89680-286-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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. 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 Research in International Studies, Africa SeriesVideo recordingsSocial aspectsGhanaVideo recordingsEconomic aspectsGhanaVideo recordings industryGhanaVideo recordingsSocial aspectsVideo recordingsEconomic aspectsVideo recordings industry384384.809667384/.809667384.809667Garritano Carmela1968-1694544MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824047703321African video movies and global desires4073181UNINA