Viewing African cinema in the twenty-first century : art films and the Nollywood video revolution / edited by Mahir Șaul and Ralph A. Austen. [electronic resource]

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Ralph A. Austen and Mahir Șaul -- The "problem" of Nollywood. What is to be done? film studies and Nigerian and Ghanaian videos / Jonathan Haynes -- Nollywood and its critics / Onookome Okome -- Ghanaian popular video movies between state film policies and Nollywood : discourses and tensions / Birgit Meyer -- Islam, Hausa culture, and censorship in Northern Nigerian video film / Abdalla Uba Adamu -- Nollywood goes east : the localization of Nigerian video films in Tanzania / Matthias Krings -- Imported films and their African audiences. Commentary and orality in African film reception / Vincent Bouchard --Songs, stories, action! audience preferences in Tanzania, 1950s-1980s / Laura Fair -- FESPACO/art film in the light of Nollywood. Art, politics, and commerce in francophone African cinema / Mahir Șaul -- Outside the machine? donor values and the case of film in Tanzania / Jane Bryce -- Emitaï : basic stylistic elements: shot length, camera movement, and character movement / Peter Rist -- Curses, nightmares, and realities : cautionary pedagogy in FESPACO films and Igbo videos / Stefan Sereda -- The return of the Mercedes : from Ousmane Sembene to Kenneth Nnebue / Lindsey Green-Simms -- U.S. distribution of African film : California Newsreel's Library of African Cinema : a case study / Cornelius Moore.

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