Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press (2010), vii, 248 pp.
Contains bibliogr. pp. 231-237, index
ISBN 978-0-8214-1931-1 (pbk); 978-0-8214-4350-7 (ebook)
Signature commbox: 100:50-General 2010
Introduction / Ralph A. Austen and Mahir Saul, 1
I. THE "PROBLEM" OF NOLLYWOOD
1 What is to be done? Film studies and Nigerian and Ghanaian videos / Jonathan Haynes, 11
2 Nollywood and its critics / Onookome Okome, 26
3 Ghanaian popular video movies between state film policies and Nollywood: discourses and tensions / Birgit Meyer, 42
4 Islam, Hausa culture, and censorship in Northern Nigerian video film / Abdalla Uba Adamu, 63
5 Nollywood goes east: the localization of Nigerian video films in Tanzania / Matthias Krings, 74
II. IMPORTED FILMS AND THEIR AFRICAN AUDIENCES
6 Commentary and orality in African film reception / Vincent Bouchard, 95
7 Songs, stories, action! Audience preferences in Tanzania, 1950s-1980s / Laura Fair, 108
III. FESPACO/ART FILM IN THE LIGHT OF NOLLYWOOD
8 Art, politics, and commerce in francophone African cinema / Mahir Saul, 133
9 Outside the machine? Donor values and the case of film in Tanzania / Jane Bryce, 160
10 Emitai: basic stylistic elements: shot length, camera movement, and character movement / Peter Rist, 178
11 Curses, nightmares, and realities: cautionary pedagogy in FESPACO films and Igbo videos / Stefan Sereda, 194
12 The return of the Mercedes: from Ousmane Sembene to Kenneth Nnebue / Lindsey Green-Simms, 209
13 U.S. distribution of African film: California Newsreel's Library of African Cinema: a case study / Cornelius Moore, 225
Selected Bibliography of African Cinema, 231
I. THE "PROBLEM" OF NOLLYWOOD
1 What is to be done? Film studies and Nigerian and Ghanaian videos / Jonathan Haynes, 11
2 Nollywood and its critics / Onookome Okome, 26
3 Ghanaian popular video movies between state film policies and Nollywood: discourses and tensions / Birgit Meyer, 42
4 Islam, Hausa culture, and censorship in Northern Nigerian video film / Abdalla Uba Adamu, 63
5 Nollywood goes east: the localization of Nigerian video films in Tanzania / Matthias Krings, 74
II. IMPORTED FILMS AND THEIR AFRICAN AUDIENCES
6 Commentary and orality in African film reception / Vincent Bouchard, 95
7 Songs, stories, action! Audience preferences in Tanzania, 1950s-1980s / Laura Fair, 108
III. FESPACO/ART FILM IN THE LIGHT OF NOLLYWOOD
8 Art, politics, and commerce in francophone African cinema / Mahir Saul, 133
9 Outside the machine? Donor values and the case of film in Tanzania / Jane Bryce, 160
10 Emitai: basic stylistic elements: shot length, camera movement, and character movement / Peter Rist, 178
11 Curses, nightmares, and realities: cautionary pedagogy in FESPACO films and Igbo videos / Stefan Sereda, 194
12 The return of the Mercedes: from Ousmane Sembene to Kenneth Nnebue / Lindsey Green-Simms, 209
13 U.S. distribution of African film: California Newsreel's Library of African Cinema: a case study / Cornelius Moore, 225
Selected Bibliography of African Cinema, 231
