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Nigerian video filmsdramatic features shot on video and sold as cassettesare 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 videos 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.
- Format: Pocket/Paperback
- ISBN: 9780896802117
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 287
- Utgivningsdatum: 2000-08-01
- Förlag: Ohio University Press