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Book Synopsis Auteuring Nollywood by : Afolayan, Adeshina
Download or read book Auteuring Nollywood written by Afolayan, Adeshina and published by University Press, Nigeria. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning from an auteur standpoint, this book interrogates extant cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigerian postcolonial realities in Nollywood. It makes a case, using Kunle Afolayan's The Figurine, for a critical space-clearing gesture around the notion of a neo-Nollywood, which transcends the formulaic cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigerian realities to embrace a visionary and philosophic rearticualtion of the role of film-making, and of Nollywood, in the Nigerian imagination. The Idea of neo-Nollywood, and a visionary director, therefore stands at the core of a cinematic production process that challenges, disturbs and stimulates perceptions of current and future African identities
Book Synopsis African Migration Narratives by : Cajetan Iheka
Download or read book African Migration Narratives written by Cajetan Iheka and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the representations of migration in African literature, film, and other visual media, with an eye to the stylistic features of these works as well as their contributions to debates on migration
Book Synopsis Nigerian Film Culture and the Idea of the Nation by : Tsaaior, James Tar
Download or read book Nigerian Film Culture and the Idea of the Nation written by Tsaaior, James Tar and published by Adonis and Abbey Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collectively, the essays brought together in this book represent a discursive confluence on Nollywood as a local film culture with a global character, aspiration and reach. The governing concern of the book is that texts, including film texts, are animated by a particular sociology and anthropology which gives them concrete existence and meaning. The book argues that Nollywood, the Nigerian video film text, is deeply rooted in the sub-soil of its social and cultural milieux. Nollywood is therefore, engaged in the relentless negotiation and re-negotiation of the everyday lives of the people against the backdrop of their cultural traditions, social contradictions and the politics of their ethnic/national identity, longing and belonging. The essays weave an intricate and delicate argument about the critical role of Nollywood to the idea of nationhood and the logic of its narration with implications for language, politics and culture in Africa. The book is a valuable addition to the critical discourse on the important place of film and cinema studies in national engineering processes.
Book Synopsis Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora by : Abimbola Adelakun
Download or read book Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora written by Abimbola Adelakun and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the politics of artistic creativity, examining how black artists in Africa and the diaspora create art as a procedure of self-making. Essays cross continents to uncover the efflorescence of black culture in national and global contexts and in literature, film, performance, music, and visual art. Contributors place the concerns of black artists and their works within national and transnational conversations on anti-black racism, xenophobia, ethnocentrism, migration, resettlement, resistance, and transnational feminisms. Does art by the subaltern fulfill the liberatory potential that critics have ascribed to it? What other possibilities does political art offer? Together, these essays sort through the aesthetics of daily life to build a thesis that reflects the desire of black artists and cultures to remake themselves and their world.
Download or read book Nollywood written by Jonathan Haynes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English-language branch of the Nigerian film industry, Nollywood, has become the third largest in the world. Nollywood films saturate Nigeria and have spread across the African continent, achieving an astonishing extent and depth of cultural influence. They are the most important modern cultural form to come out of Africa. In this book, Jonathan Haynes aims to map out the cultural terrain of Nollywood films much more comprehensively and ambitiously than has been to date. He in effect establishes a canon for Nollywood films. The book is organized around the historical development of Nollywood film culture, which is explored with close attention to the recent history of Nigeria. Throughout the book, genre (defined with reference to common usage in Nigerian film markets) is the principal framework. Thus after establishing a sense of the material and social circumstances out of which Nollywood was born and exploring a few landmark films, Haynes analyzes the durable set of themes and plot types that dominate the industry and reveal deeply embedded tensions in contemporary Nigerian life. These genres include family films and romances, village films, cultural epics, political films, films made in or about the Nigerian diaspora, and campus films. Haynes concludes by offering some remarks on the future of Nollywood, exploring the buzz around a New Nollywood of films with higher budgets fit for international film festivals and widespread screening in cinemas in Nigeria and abroad."
Download or read book Nollywood Dreams written by Jocelyn Bioh and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the nineties and in Lagos, Nigeria, the “Nollywood” film industry is exploding. Ayamma dreams of leaving her job at her parents’ travel agency and becoming a star. When she auditions for a new film by Nigeria’s hottest director, tension flares with his former leading lady—as sparks fly with Nollywood’s biggest heartthrob
Book Synopsis Gender Terrains in African Cinema by : Dominica Dipio
Download or read book Gender Terrains in African Cinema written by Dominica Dipio and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender Terrains in African Cinema reflects on a body of canonical African filmmakers who address a trajectory of pertinent social issues. Dipio analyses gender relations around three categories of female characters the girl child, the young woman and the elderly woman and their male counterparts. Although gender remains the focal point in this lucid and fascinating text, Dipio engages attention in her discussion of African feminism in relation to Western feminism. With its broad appeal to African humanities, Gender Terrains in African Cinema stands as a unique and radical contribution to the field of (African) film studies, which until now, has suffered from a paucity of scholarship.
Book Synopsis Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas by : Elizabeth Johnson
Download or read book Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas written by Elizabeth Johnson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas investigates the role of women in nine Nollywood melodramas with attention to the changing landscape of filmmaking and film viewing. By incorporating Black feminist, audience reception, social identity, and cultivation theories, Johnson and Culverson provide insight into how identities for West African women are created and recreated through the broad interplay of Nollywood film viewing on social and individual levels. This book addresses how Nollywood is a product and contributor to evolving processes of globalization.
Download or read book Nollywood Stars written by Noah A. Tsika and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A revelation. It will introduce readers to one of the most significant global centers of film production, Nigeria . . . an important work . . . Essential.” —Choice In this comprehensive study of Nollywood stardom around the world, Noah A. Tsika explores how the industry’s top on-screen talents have helped Nollywood to expand beyond West Africa and into the diaspora to become one of the globe’s most prolific and diverse media producers. Carrying VHS tapes and DVDs onto airplanes and publicizing new methods of film distribution, the stars are active agents in the global circulation of Nollywood film. From Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde’s cameo role on VH1’s popular series Hit the Floor to Oge Okoye’s startling impersonation of Lady Gaga, this book follows Nollywood stars from Lagos to London, Ouagadougou, Cannes, Paris, Porto-Novo, Sekondi-Takoradi, Dakar, Accra, Atlanta, Houston, New York, and Los Angeles. Tsika tracks their efforts to integrate into various entertainment cultures, but never to the point of effacing their African roots. “Tsika breaks new ground in showing that Nollywood stars are not the passive creations of an industry, but rather have been essential conditions of its existence and phenomenal success.” —Jacquelyn Southern, Center for Urban & Global Studies, Trinity College “There is no doubt that this is a pioneering book, one that raises important questions about the transnational and transmedial dimensions of an emergent, corporate culture of stardom and models an entirely new approach to the study of African movies and media.” —African Studies Review “Makes a convincing case that one cannot fully understand Nollywood without a thorough and rigorous examination of its stars.” —Christina Lane, University of Miami
Book Synopsis The Idea of Creativity (paperback) by : Karen Bardsley
Download or read book The Idea of Creativity (paperback) written by Karen Bardsley and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 950 entries and approximately 400 contributing scholars, the Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics is the authoritative reference work of all aspects of the history and study of the Hebrew language from its earliest attested form to the present day.
Download or read book Nollywood written by Ibbo Daddy Abdoulaye and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 1,200 video films produced each year, Nigeria has become one of the most prolific producers of film fiction in the world. This book examines how the experiences and lives of Nigerians are narrated through the storyboards of the video producers, who copy with confidence and energy the recipes and formulas of popular films.
Book Synopsis Fela Anikulapo-Kuti by : Adeshina Afolayan
Download or read book Fela Anikulapo-Kuti written by Adeshina Afolayan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fela Anikulapo Kuti was the Afrobeat music maestro whose life and time provide the lens through which we can outline the postcolonial trajectory of the Nigerian state as well as the dynamics of most other African states. Through the Afrobeat music, Fela did not only challenge consecutive governments in Nigeria, but his rebellious Afrobeat lyrics facilitate a philosophical subtext that enriches the more intellectual Afrocentric discourses. Afrobeat and the philosophy of blackism that Fela enunciated place him right beside Malcolm X, Kwame Nkrumah, Marcus Garvey, and all the others who champion a black and African mode of being in the world. This book traces the emergence of Fela on the music scene, the cultural and political backgrounds that made Afrobeat possible, and the philosophical elements that not only contributed to the formation of Fela's blackism, but what constitutes Fela's philosophical sensibility too.
Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy by : Adeshina Afolayan
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy written by Adeshina Afolayan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook investigates the current state and future possibilities of African Philosophy, as a discipline and as a practice, vis-à-vis the challenge of African development and Africa’s place in a globalized, neoliberal capitalist economy. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the philosophical enterprise in Africa, especially with reference to current discourses, arguments and new issues—feminism and gender, terrorism and fundamentalism, sexuality, development, identity, pedagogy and multidisciplinarity, etc.—that are significant for understanding how Africa can resume its arrested march towards decolonization and liberation.
Book Synopsis The Rhetoric of Culture in Nollywood by : Innocent Ebere Uwah
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Culture in Nollywood written by Innocent Ebere Uwah and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes a voice to the discourse on the film industry especially the depiction of culture in Nollywood. It explores what the Nollywood representations actually depict not only for Nigerians who are its proximate consumers but also for the wider world as its global audience. The goal is to problematize the Euro-American imageries of Africa shrouded around such negatives as diseases, jungle life, pagan rituals, famine, wars, brokenness, poverty, illiteracy, slavery, incivility, among others as they are underscored in typical Hollywood movies. The book brings textual analysis to cultural representation and the audience's interpretations in order to re-think the identity construction of Africans from within and therefore contributes to the intellectual world order of the global knowledge economy.
Book Synopsis Emergence, Growth and Challenges of Films and Home Videos in Nigeria by : Olufemi Onabajo
Download or read book Emergence, Growth and Challenges of Films and Home Videos in Nigeria written by Olufemi Onabajo and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nollywood Video Film by : Uchenna Onuzulike
Download or read book Nollywood Video Film written by Uchenna Onuzulike and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nollywood in Glocal Perspective by : Bala A. Musa
Download or read book Nollywood in Glocal Perspective written by Bala A. Musa and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This welcome collection both reinforces the importance of familiar films and historical trends and breaks new ground in Nollywood studies. It will be of interest to anyone eager to learn more about African screen media at the nexus of the global and the local."--Noah Tsika, author of Nollywood Stars: Media and Migration in West Africa and the Diaspora 'Nollywood in Glocal Perspective is a valuable contribution to knowledge, providing detailed examination of Nollywood's growth as a cultural icon with large followership and influence across Africa and the world. "The diverse perspectives provided by the contributors illuminate the local and global cultural forces that pull on the soul of Nollywood". The collection presents a compelling and beautifully crafted, accessible, engrossing and refreshing piece which illuminates and redefines an entire area of contemporary film studies. "The authors tell Africa's story with balance and authenticity. They celebrate Africa's rich cultural experience and heritage; exalt in its triumphs; reflect on its struggles". With great insight, they present Nollywood's transition from local to glocal giant within two decades. This collection has the potential to give direction into the unexplored aesthetic and political landscape. It is a groundbreaking book, which brings new understanding, broader and more inclusive framework to look at glocalization. It is sure to become a required reading for scholars of Post-colonial Studies, Film studies and Globalization.' - Irene Isoken Agunloye, Professor of African Drama, Gender, Women & Film Studies; Director of the Centre for Gender & Women's Studies, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria 'Nollywood in Glocal Perspective is a compendium on film and cinema in contemporary Africa as well as a contribution to the emergent New World Entertainment Order and its diverse cultural centers. As in Los Angeles, New York City, Sydney, London, Paris or Johannesburg, there is a new (global) market for entertainment and pop culture from the African continent - Nollywood, Ghallywood, Riverwood or Bongowood -- with abundance of creative energy and feeder-talents. Like its themes and genre, the writing style is entertaining, insightful and illuminatingly gender sensitive. Nollywood in Glocal Perspective should serve as a companion to students of film, Cinema, song and dance. It is also highly recommended for stakeholders in the entertainment industry.' - Stanley Naribo Ngoa, Director, Olusegun Obasanjo Centre for African Studies (OOCAS), National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Abuja, Nigeria. 'Bala Musa has given media and pop culture enthusiasts and scholars a wonderful book that articulates the manner in which writers, producers, actors, actresses, business people and academicians have pulled out of the ashes of Africa, a vibrant industry that spans hundreds of cultural landscapes across the globe. The sensitivity with which the book has balanced socio-cultural values and practices with technological innovations speaks volumes about the vibrancy of the untapped creative energies from what was once known as the dark continent. Written in a friendly but scholarly style, the text provides readers with an impetus to engage critically with very well researched ideas on a growing pro-social entertainment platform.' - Faith Nguru, Author of Foreign TV Shows and Kenyan Youth 'Nollywood in Glocal Perspective is brilliant, precise and filled with such deep intellectual analysis that it deserves a reading by serious scholars of pop culture. Intellectual authority and consistency are evident throughout this seminal work. Researchers seeking conceptual and analytic frameworks on pop culture research will be delighted. Scholars seeking to understand the evolution of Nollywood (Nigeria) and its companions, Gallywood (Ghana), Riverwood (Kenya), and Bongowood (Tanzania), will be intellectually rewarded. In the anchoring piece, Bala Musa, while extolling digital technology's seemingly empowering functions, reminds us that gender inequities and exclusions are still rampart in pop culture. Failing to address these gaps hurts the movie industry long-term.' - John Omachonu, Provost, Mars Hill University, USA.
