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De Gruyter Handbook of Media Economics

Ulrike Rohn, M. Bjørn von Rimscha, Tim Raats (eds.)

Berlin: De Gruyter (2024), xix, 566 pp.

"The handbook presents key contributions from scholars worldwide, providing a comprehensive exploration of current trends in media industries from diverse perspectives. Within the framework of understanding contemporary and future trajectories in media markets and industries, the volume delves into ... more

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Digital Platforms and the Global South: Reconfiguring Power Relations in the Cultural Industries

Philippe Bouquillion, Christine Ithurbide, Tristan Mattelart (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2024), xiii, 239 pp.

"This book addresses the issues raised by digital platforms in the Global South, with an emphasis on the cultural stakes involved. It brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers - including political economists, socio-economists, geographers, media sociologists or anthropologists - who ... more

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Media and Communication in Nigeria: Conceptual Connections, Crossroads and Constraints

Bruce Mutsvairo, Nnamdi T. Ekeanyanwu (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xv, 272 pp.

"The book traces communication in Nigeria back to pre-colonial indigenous communication, through the development of telecommunication, broadcasting networks, the press, the Nigerian flm industry (‘Nollywood’) and on to the digital era. At a time when Western voices still dominate the academic li ... more

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Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies

Winston Mano, Viola C. Milton (eds.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xiv, 286 pp.

"The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans ... more

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Netflix geht nach Nollywood

Alessandro Jedlowski

welt-sichten, 28.3. (2019)

"Der US-amerikanische Streamingdienst kauft sich in Afrikas wichtigste Filmindustrie ein. Ob das anspruchsvollen afrikanischen Filmemachern mehr Geld und mehr Zuschauer bringt, ist jedoch fraglich." (Einleitung)

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L'audiovisuel africain et la capitalisme global

Politique Africaine, issue 153 (2019), pp. 7-159

"Ce dossier se concentre sur ces transformations plus récentes afin d’analyser leur impact sur l’économie et la politique de la production et de la distribution audiovisuelle en Afrique, tout en mettant en question les cadres théoriques et méthodologiques que nous adoptons en tant que cherch ... more

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Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases

Suman Mishra, Rebecca Kern-Stone (eds.)

Newark: Wiley (2019), ix, 246 pp.

"Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases provides a clear and engaging overview of media communication from a global and a region-based perspective. Rather than focusing on just complex theories and industry-specific analyses, this unique book offers an inclusive, comparative approach to both journa ... more

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Nollywood: The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres

Jonathan Haynes

Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press (2016), xxviii, 375 pp.

"Haynes describes the major Nigerian film genres and how they relate to Nigerian society—its values, desires, anxieties, and social tensions—as the country and its movies have developed together over the turbulent past two decades. As he shows, Nollywood is a form of popular culture; it produces ... more

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Nollywood Central

Jade L. Miller

London: Palgrave Macmillan;British Film Institute (bfi) (2016), 175 pp.

"Nollywood is often portrayed by the popular press as an unruly industry, with mysteriously fast and cheap production and shadowy distribution networks. In the first overview of Nigeria's burgeoning video film industry, Jade L. Miller reveals that this portrayal is over-simplistic and often untrue. ... more

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Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry

Matthias Krings, Onookome Okome (eds.)

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), viii, 371 pp.

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Global Nollywood: The Nigerian Movie Industry and Alternative Global Networks in Production and Distribution

Jade Miller

Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 2 (2012), pp. 117-134

"While Nollywood, Nigeria’s video industry, is largely separate from dominant global cultural industry networks of production inputs and distribution, it is an industry that is still globally linked in a number of ways. In this article, I investigate the nature and layout of these connections via ... more