Auteuring Nollywood : Critical Perspectives on The Figurine.

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Afolayan, Adeshina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ibadan : University Press, Nigeria, 2014.
Temas:
Figurine.
Motion picture industry > Nigeria.
Supernatural in motion pictures.
Cinéma > Industrie > Nigeria.
Surnaturel au cinéma.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Motion picture industry
Supernatural in motion pictures
Nigeria
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 scenario
  • The 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 Supernatural
  • Introduction
  • 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 Figurine
  • Introduction
  • 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 background
  • The 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
  • Introduction: Nigeria @ 50
  • The repression of the state
  • National cinema, national ambitions
  • Interrogating Nollywood
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • 12. Nollywood and the Discursive Mediation of Identity, Nationhood and Social Anxiety
  • Introduction
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 13. Towards a Morality of the African Film
  • Introduction
  • Why only the film director?
  • What is morality?
  • What morality?
  • Film as a work of art
  • What type of a film?
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 14. Nollywood: How Far? How Much Further
  • The evolution of Nollywood
  • The content of the Nollywood film
  • Marketing the Nollywood film
  • The Nollywood audience
  • Wither Nollywood?
  • Notes
  • References.
  • Part III
  • INTERVIEWS
  • Of The Figurine, "Neo Nollywood" and the Politics of Film Festivals in Africa
  • The Story, the Script and the Movie
  • Cinematography Within Limitations
  • Set Design Beyond Nollywood
  • The Excitement of a Story
  • AFTERWORD
  • Neo-Nollywood and Its Other
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX
  • Back cover.

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