Film Policy for Nigeria
Author : Nigerian Film Corporation
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN :
Author : Nigerian Film Corporation
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN :
Author : Hyginus Ekwuazi
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,69 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan Haynes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 022638795X
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."
Author : Hyginus Ekwuazi
Publisher :
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,7 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9781569026052
"Film in Nigeria is an exceptional work on the scholarship of film in Nigeria and the Nigerian film. It is a pioneering in more ways than one. It was Film in Nigeria that opened up this new area of scholarship in the study of visual culture in Nigeria. Each of the ten chapters sizes up the different context of film production in Nigeria, and they cohere to provide rare information on the making of the Nigerian cinema since the colonial times. The value of this work lies in its establishment of a dynamic groundwork for the analysis and appreciation of the contexts in which films are produced and consumed in Nigeria, and in particular the Nigerian film. There is hardly any book on the subject with the rare insights of this book. This book will surely find its place in courses on African Film Studies, Mass Communications, Theatre Art Studies, Popular Culture, Policy Studies and to those interested or involved in film appreciation and production in Nigeria"--
Author : Tsaaior, James Tar
Publisher : Adonis and Abbey Publishers
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,9 MB
Release : 2017-09-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1909112747
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.
Author : Hyginus Ekwuazi
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 29,54 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN :
Author : Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520912366
From the proselytizing lantern slides of early Christian missionaries to contemporary films that look at Africa through an African lens, N. Frank Ukadike explores the development of black African cinema. He examines the impact of culture and history, and of technology and co-production, on filmmaking throughout Africa. Every aspect of African contact with and contribution to cinematic practices receives attention: British colonial cinema; the thematic and stylistic diversity of the pioneering "francophone" films; the effects of television on the motion picture industry; and patterns of television documentary filmmaking in "anglophone" regions. Ukadike gives special attention to the growth of independent production in Ghana and Nigeria, the unique Yoruba theater-film tradition, and the militant liberationist tendencies of "lusophone" filmmakers. He offers a lucid discussion of oral tradition as a creative matrix and the relationship between cinema and other forms of popular culture. And, by contrasting "new" African films with those based on the traditional paradigm, he explores the trends emerging from the eighties and nineties. Clearly written and accessible to specialist and general reader alike, Black African Cinema's analysis of key films and issues—the most comprehensive in English—is unique. The book's pan-Africanist vision heralds important new strategies for appraising a cinema that increasingly attracts the attention of film students and Africanists.
Author : Nigerian Film Corporation
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Art and state
ISBN :
Author : Onyero Mgbejume
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN :