Nigerian Video Films
Nigerian Video Films
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Author: Jonathan Haynes
Number of Pages: 287 pages
Published Date: 30 Aug 2000
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication Country: Ohio, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780896802117
File size: 39 Mb
Download Link: Nigerian Video Films
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Nigerian video films dramatic features shot on video and sold as cassettes are being produced at the rate of nearly one a day, making them the major contemporary art form in Nigeria. The history of African film offers no precedent for such a huge, popularly based industry. The contributors to this volume, who include film and television directors, an anthropologist, and scholars of film studies and literature, take a variety of approaches to this flourishing popular art. Topics include aesthetic forms and distribution; the configurations of various ethnic audiences; the new media environment dominated by cassette technology; the video's materialism in a period of economic collapse; transformation of the traditional Yoruba traveling theater; individualism and the moral crisis in Igbo society; Hausa cultural values; the negotiation of gender roles, and the genre of Christian videos."
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Nigerian Video Films by Jonathan Haynes
Author: Jonathan Haynes
Number of Pages: 287 pages
Published Date: 30 Aug 2000
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication Country: Ohio, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780896802117
File size: 39 Mb
Download Link: Nigerian Video Films
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Nigerian video films dramatic features shot on video and sold as cassettes are being produced at the rate of nearly one a day, making them the major contemporary art form in Nigeria. The history of African film offers no precedent for such a huge, popularly based industry. The contributors to this volume, who include film and television directors, an anthropologist, and scholars of film studies and literature, take a variety of approaches to this flourishing popular art. Topics include aesthetic forms and distribution; the configurations of various ethnic audiences; the new media environment dominated by cassette technology; the video's materialism in a period of economic collapse; transformation of the traditional Yoruba traveling theater; individualism and the moral crisis in Igbo society; Hausa cultural values; the negotiation of gender roles, and the genre of Christian videos."
Read online Nigerian Video Films Buy Nigerian Video Films Download Nigerian Video Films ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Nigerian Video Films