LEADER 04082nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910786879103321 005 20230803030031.0 010 $a0-253-00942-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000357953 035 $a(EBL)1189108 035 $a(OCoLC)844434365 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000887465 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11543490 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000887465 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10839682 035 $a(PQKB)11645032 035 $a(OCoLC)849928780 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29063 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1189108 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10704746 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL492068 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1189108 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000357953 100 $a20130225d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aGlobal Nollywood$b[electronic resource] $ethe transnational dimensions of an African video film industry /$fedited by Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (382 p.) 225 0 $aAfrican expressive cultures 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-00935-9 311 $a0-253-00923-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; 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 London 327 $a7. 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 Transnationality 327 $aPart 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 330 $a

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, thi 410 0$aAfrican Expressive Cultures 606 $aMotion picture industry$zNigeria 606 $aVideo recordings industry$zNigeria 615 0$aMotion picture industry 615 0$aVideo recordings industry 676 $a791.4309669 701 $aKrings$b Matthias$f1967 September 26-$0961308 701 $aOkome$b Onookome$01568083 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786879103321 996 $aGlobal Nollywood$93839968 997 $aUNINA