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Nigerian Video Films

Nigerian Video Films

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Series: Ohio Ris Africa

Film & Video ArtFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 0896802116
ISBN13: 9780896802117
Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr
Published: Aug 30 2000
Pages: 287
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.55 Depth: 8.53
Language: English
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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