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Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution
Mahir Saul (Ed.)
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African cinema in the 1960s originated mainly from Francophone countries. It resembled the art cinema of contemporary Europe and relied on support from the French film industry and the French state. Beginning in 1969 the biennial Festival panafricain du cinema et de la television de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), held in Burkina Faso, became the major showcase for these films. But since the early 1990s, a new phenomenon has come to dominate the African cinema world: mass-marketed films shot on less expensive video cameras. These Nollywood films, so named because many originate in southern Nigeria, are a thriving industry dominating ... Read more
African cinema in the 1960s originated mainly from Francophone countries. It resembled the art cinema of contemporary Europe and relied on support from the French film industry and the French state. Beginning in 1969 the biennial Festival panafricain du cinema et de la television de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), held in Burkina Faso, became the major showcase for these films. But since the early 1990s, a new phenomenon has come to dominate the African cinema world: mass-marketed films shot on less expensive video cameras. These Nollywood films, so named because many originate in southern Nigeria, are a thriving industry dominating ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821419311
SKU
V9780821419311
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About Mahir Saul (Ed.)
Mahir Saul is a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is coauthor of African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War and author of many articles on West African anthropology and social and economic history. Ralph A. Austen is a professor emeritus of African history at the University of Chicago. He is ... Read more
Reviews for Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution
A first-rate compendium of ongoing discussions about the nature, protocols, and impact of video-film production as a new media form in African cinema.