LEADER 03831nam 22005773 450 001 9910919838403321 005 20250106084508.0 010 $a1-04-079137-9 010 $a1-003-69052-1 010 $a90-485-6126-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9789048561261 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31861711 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31861711 035 $a(CKB)37130994700041 035 $a(DE-B1597)724985 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789048561261 035 $a(OCoLC)1484071957 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937130994700041 100 $a20250106d2025 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAfrican Media in an Age of Extraction $eNollywood Geographies 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aAmsterdam :$cAmsterdam University Press,$d2025. 210 4$dİ2024. 215 $a1 online resource (361 pages) 225 1 $aFilm Culture in Transition Series 311 08$a90-485-6125-6 327 $aCover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Nollywood's Spatial Frames -- 1. Resource Cinemas -- Sites, Symbols, and Specters of Extraction -- 2. Breaking African Ground -- Location Shooting and the Search for Resource Enclaves -- 3. Dredging Nollywood -- Corporations, Land Reclamation, and the Lure of Neoliberalism -- 4. Twilight Forests -- Cinema and Deforestation -- 5. Bad Fuel -- Oil Consciousness from Hollywood to Nollywood -- Conclusion -- Environments of Interaction -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aAfrican Media in an Age of Extraction takes a fresh, site-specific look at the relationship between moving images and the mining of natural resources, arguing that where we ?place? Nollywood and other industries has important practical and conceptual consequences. Such locations are not just spatial metaphors but also tangible geographies with material connections to extractive economies. Sites of film production are often spaces of oil prospecting, timber harvesting, and mineral extraction?natural environments continuously transformed by capital. African Media in an Age of Extraction links such absolute spaces?reclaimed lands, razed forests, petroleum zones, abandoned coal mines collecting moss, vast tin fields inspiring illegal dredging by populations locked out of the licit economy?to the abstract and lived dimensions of film villages, shooting locations, and exhibition centers. The geographies of African media industries are not fixed locations cleanly separated from surrounding areas or from the wider world (including Hollywood), nor are they fully detachable from the mineral and hydrocarbon resources that also define them. Considering multiple scales?the local, the national, the regional, the continental, the planetary?this book takes stock of the physical terrain and extractive objects that Nollywood shares with other industries and that structure screen media more broadly. Topographies, political economies, national identities, and natural resources are entwined in ways that cinema makes intelligible and that carry the potential to transform the way we see the medium itself. 410 0$aFilm Culture in Transition Series 606 $aMines and mineral resources$zAfrica 606 $aMotion picture industry$zAfrica 606 $aMotion picture locations$zAfrica 606 $aART / Film & Video$2bisacsh 615 0$aMines and mineral resources 615 0$aMotion picture industry 615 0$aMotion picture locations 615 7$aART / Film & Video. 676 $a384/.8096 700 $aTsika$b Noah$01251749 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910919838403321 996 $aAfrican Media in an Age of Extraction$94306654 997 $aUNINA