Matthias Krings, Onookome Okome, Alessandro Jedlowski, Jyoti Mistry, Jordache A. Ellapen

Global Nollywood

The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry
Herausgeber: Krings, Matthias; Okome, Onookome

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Produktbeschreibung

Matthias Krings is Professor of Anthropology and African Popular Culture at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Onookome Okome is Professor of African Literature and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada.

Produktdetails

• Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780253009357
• ISBN-10: 0253009359
• Artikelnr.: 36932827

Autorenporträt

Matthias Krings is Professor of Anthropology and African Popular Culture at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Onookome Okome is Professor of African Literature and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Nollywood and Its Diaspora: An Introduction \ Matthias Krings and Onookome
Okome
Part 1. Mapping the Terrain
1. From Nollywood to Nollyworld: Processes of Transnationalization in the
Nigerian Video Film Industry \ Alessandro Jedlowski
2. Nollywood's Transportability: The Politics and Economics of Video Films
as Cultural Products \ Jyoti Mistry and Jordache A. Ellapen
Part 2. Transnational Nollywood
3. The Nollywood Diaspora: A Nigerian Video Genre \ Jonathan Haynes
4. Nollywood Made in Europe \ Sophie Samyn
5. Made in America: Urban Immigrant Spaces in Transnational Nollywood Films
\ Claudia Hoffmann
6. Reversing the Filmic Gaze: Comedy and the Critique of the Postcolony in
Osuofia in London \ Onookome Okome
7. Nollywood and Postcolonial Predicaments: Transnationalism, Gender, and
the Commoditization of Desire in Glamour Girls \ Paul Ugor
Part 3. Nollywood and Its Audiences
8. Nollywood in Urban Southern Africa: Nigerian Video Films and Their
Audiences in Cape Town and Windhoek \ Heike Becker
9. Religion, Migration, and Media Aesthetics: Notes on the Circulation and
Reception of Nigerian Films in Kinshasa \ Katrien Pype
10. "African Movies" in Barbados: Proximate Experiences of Fear and Desire
\ Jane Bryce
11. Consuming Nollywood in Turin, Italy \ Giovanna Santanera
12. Nigerian Videos and Their Imagined Western Audiences: The Limits of
Nollywood's Transnationality \ Babson Ajibade
Part 4. Appropriations of Nollywood
13. Transgressing Boundaries: Reinterpretation of Nollywood Films in Muslim
Northern Nigeria \ Abdalla Uba Adamu
14. Karishika with Kiswahili Flavor: A Nollywood Film Retold by a Tanzanian
Video Narrator \ Matthias Krings
15. Bloody Bricolages: Traces of Nollywood in Tanzanian Video Films \
Claudia Böhme
List of Contributors
Index