Understanding Nigeria's Nollywood

Theoretical and empirical Illuminations

Osakue Stevenson Omoera, Gloria Emeagwali (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

348 Seiten

2025 | 25001 A. 1. Auflage
Galda Verlag
978-3-96203-422-1 (ISBN)

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Nollywood has grown by leaps and bounds. It has not only generated academic, cultural, scientific, and economic interests at national and transnational levels but created a global following that has now made it a stakeholder in World Cinema. By 2000, Nollywood had become not only Africa's largest movie industry but at the rate of 2,000 films a year, the second largest in the world, coming only after the Indian cinema. Given the platformization of Nollywood, we are sanguine that Understanding Nigeria's Nollywood: Theoretical and Empirical Illuminations will provide film scholars, film critics, film archivists, film curators, and enthusiasts, among others, critical lenses to view and possibly further interrogate the burgeoning African film industry. The book aims to deepen the global understanding of Nollywood, including its art, science, business models, and the centripetal and centrifugal forces that tuck at its heart.

Osakue Stevenson Omoera, PhD, is Chair Professor of Theatre and Film Studies and the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1086-7874 Gloria Emeagwali, PhD, is Professor of History and African Studies at the Department of History, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut, USA. Websites: www.africahistory.net; vimeo.com/gloriaemeagwali.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.03.2025
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	579 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	3-96203-422-6 / 3962034226
ISBN-13	978-3-96203-422-1 / 9783962034221
Zustand	Neuware