04079nam 2200649Ia 450 991082684230332120240313215258.00-253-00942-1(CKB)2670000000357953(EBL)1189108(OCoLC)844434365(SSID)ssj0000887465(PQKBManifestationID)11543490(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000887465(PQKBWorkID)10839682(PQKB)11645032(OCoLC)849928780(MdBmJHUP)muse29063(Au-PeEL)EBL1189108(CaPaEBR)ebr10704746(CaONFJC)MIL492068(MiAaPQ)EBC1189108(EXLCZ)99267000000035795320130225d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGlobal Nollywood the transnational dimensions of an African video film industry /edited by Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome1st ed.Bloomington Indiana University Pressc20131 online resource (382 p.)African expressive culturesDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-00935-9 0-253-00923-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.CONTENTS; Preface and Acknowledgments ; Nollywood and Its Diaspora: An Introduction ; Part 1. Mapping the Terrain; 1. From Nollywood to Nollyworld: Processes of Transnationalization in the Nigerian Video Film Industry; 2. Nollywood's Transportability: The Politics and Economics of Video Films as Cultural Products; Part 2. Transnational Nollywood ; 3. The Nollywood Diaspora: A Nigerian Video Genre; 4. Nollywood Made in Europe; 5. Made in America: Urban Immigrant Spaces in Transnational Nollywood Films; 6. Reversing the Filmic Gaze: Comedy and the Critique of the Postcolony in Osuofia in London7. Nollywood and Postcolonial Predicaments: Transnationalism, Gender, and the Commoditization of Desire in Glamour GirlsPart 3. Nollywood and Its Audiences; 8. Nollywood in Urban Southern Africa: Nigerian Video Films and Their Audiences in Cape Town and Windhoek; 9. Religion, Migration, and Media Aesthetics: Notes on the Circulation and Reception of Nigerian Films in Kinshasa ; 10. "African Movies" in Barbados: Proximate Experiences of Fear and Desire; 11. Consuming Nollywood in Turin, Italy ; 12. Nigerian Videos and Their Imagined Western Audiences: The Limits of Nollywood's TransnationalityPart 4. Appropriations of Nollywood13. Transgressing Boundaries: Reinterpretation of Nollywood Films in Muslim Northern Nigeria; 14. Karishika with Kiswahili Flavor: A Nollywood Film Retold by a Tanzanian Video Narrator; 15. Bloody Bricolages: Traces of Nollywood in Tanzanian Video Films; List of Contributors; General Index; Film Title Index<P>Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In 15 lively essays, this volume traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the African continent and the rest of the world. Topics such as Nollywood as a theoretical construct, the development of a new, critical film language, and Nollywood's transformation outside of Nigeria reveal the broader implications of this film form as it travels and develops. Highlighting controversies surrounding commodification, globalization, and the development of the film industry on a wider scale, thiAfrican Expressive CulturesMotion picture industryNigeriaVideo recordings industryNigeriaMotion picture industryVideo recordings industry791.4309669Krings Matthias1967 September 26-961308Okome Onookome1664057MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826842303321Global Nollywood4021881UNINA