Nigerian video films
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Nigerian video films
（Research in international studies, Africa series ; no. 73）
Ohio University Center for International Studies, c2000
Rev. and expanded ed
- pbk. : alk. paper
Available at 2 libraries
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Library, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization図
pbk. : alk. paperFWNR||79||N10000023228
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-257) and index
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Description
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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