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Auteuring Nollywood : critical perspectives on The figurine /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ibadan, Nigeria :
University Press PLC,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; FOREWORD; PREFACE & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION. Philosophy, (Neo- ) Nollywood and the African Predicament; Background and motif; Modernity and the imperative of vision; Philosophy at Nollywood; Nollywood as paradigmatic practice; Neo-Nollywood as exemplary practice; Why The Figurine? The Nigerian filmmaker as auteur; Prefiguring The Figurine; Notes; References; Part I
- ARAROMIRE IN NOLLYWOOD; 1. The Figurine: The Interplay of the Mysterious, the Orchestrated and the Coincidental; Introduction.
- Kunle Afolayan and the Nollywood scenarioThe mysterious, the orchestrated and the coincidental: Fathoming the aesthetics of suspense in The Figurine; Conclusion; References; 2. The Figurine and the "Torn" Individual; Background; The problem; Nollywood in perspective; Nollywood's misrepresentation of Yoruba tradition; Nollywood's islands of hope; Of modernity and tradition; The Yoruba world view; Figuring out The Figurine; Mental map and reality; Causality and the African mode of thought; Conclusion; Notes; References.
- 3. Striving with the Gods: The Figurine and the Double-Bind of Realism and the SupernaturalIntroduction; The magical and the empirical; Conclusion; References; 4. Animist Order and the Ghost of Modernity in Kunle Afolayan's The Figurine; Introduction; Conclusion; Note; References; 5. Araromire's Cross: A Human Dilemma; Introduction; A further elaboration on Araromire; Drawing on analogy; Conclusion; References; 6. Local Going Global: Comparing the International Narrative Appeal of Araromire (The Figurine) and Love in the Time of Cholera; Films; Books.
- 7. Alter/Native Film Narratives in Nollywood and The FigurineIntroduction; Alter/Natives film narratives; The mask code in African cinema; Techniques and motif; On postmodernism and The Figurine; Conclusion; Note; References; 8. Nigerian Video Film and the Conundrum of Language: Observatory Notes on Kunle Afolayan's Araromire and Irapada; Introduction; Language and Nigerian literary arts; A Filmmaker's experiment with language in Araromire and Irapada; Concluding remarks; Filmography; References; Part II
- NOLLYWOOD AND BEYOND; 9. The Home Video Industry and Nigeria's Cultural Development.
- The backgroundThe traditional theatre films and videos; The mass society and the mass media; The Nigerian film versus the Nigerian home video; Conclusion: Home video and television as precursors of the new media; References; 10. Audio-Visual Griots: On the Historiography of the Indigenous Yoruba Video Film in Nigeria; Introduction: The Nigerian video film; the Nigerian video film and its antecedents; Historiophory and Nigerian video films; Yoruba videos and politics; Conclusion; References; 11. The Crippled Cinema of a Crippled Nation? Preliminary Notes on Nollywood and the Nigerian State.