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

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Edited by Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome
2013
Published by: Indiana University Press
Series: African Expressive Cultures
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Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In 15 lively essays, this volume traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the African continent and the rest of the world. Topics such as Nollywood as a theoretical construct, the development of a new, critical film language, and Nollywood's transformation outside of Nigeria reveal the broader implications of this film form as it travels and develops. Highlighting controversies surrounding commodification, globalization, and the development of the film industry on a wider scale, this volume gives sustained attention to Nollywood as a uniquely African cultural production.

Table of Contents

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Cover

pp. 1-3

Title Page

pp. 4-4

Copyright Page

pp. 5-5

Table of Contents

pp. v-vi

Preface and Acknowledgments

pp. vii-viii

Nollywood and its Diaspora: An Introduction

pp. 1-22

Part 1. Mapping the Terrain

1. From Nollywood to Nollyworld: Processes of Transnationalization in the Nigerian Video Film Industry

pp. 25-45

2. Nollywood’s Transportability: The Politics and Economics of Video Films as Cultural Products

pp. 46-70

Part 2. Transnational Nollywood

3. The Nollywood Diaspora: A Nigerian Video Genre

pp. 73-99

4. Nollywood Made in Europe

pp. 100-120

5. Made in America: Urban Immigrant Spaces in Transnational Nollywood Films

pp. 121-138

6. Reversing the Filmic Gaze: Comedy and the Critique of the Postcolony in Osuofia in London

pp. 139-157

7. Nollywood and Postcolonial Predicaments: Transnationalism, Gender, and the Commoditization of Desire in Glamour Girls

pp. 158-176

Part 3. Nollywood and its Audiences

8. Nollywood in Urban Southern Africa: Nigerian Video Films and Their Audiences in Cape Town and Windhoek

pp. 179-198

9. Religion, Migration, and Media Aesthetics: Notes on the Circulation and Reception of Nigerian Films in Kinshasa

pp. 199-222

10. “African Movies” in Barbados: Proximate Experiences of Fear and Desire

pp. 223-244

11. Consuming Nollywood in Turin, Italy

pp. 245-263

12. Nigerian Videos and their Imagined Western Audiences: The Limits of Nollywood’s Transnationality

pp. 264-284

Part 4. Appropriations of Nollywood

13. Transgressing Boundaries: Reinterpretation of Nollywood Films in Muslim Northern Nigeria

pp. 287-305

14. Karishika with Kiswahili Flavor: A Nollywood Film Retold by a Tanzanian Video Narrator

pp. 306-326

15. Bloody Bricolages: Traces of Nollywood in Tanzanian Video Films

pp. 327-346

List of Contributors

pp. 347-352

General Index

pp. 353-368

Film Title Index

pp. 369-371
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