African Video Movies and Global Desires : A Ghanaian History /

Mostrar otras versiones (1)

This book presents a scholarly study of Ghana's commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production. Produced and consumed under circumstances of dire shortage and scarcity, Afric...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Garritano, Carmela, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Video
Videowirtschaft
Filmwirtschaft
Video recordings > Social aspects
Video recordings industry
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Telecommunications.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Media & Communications.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Video > Industrie > Ghāna.
Videos > Aspect economique > Ghāna.
Videos > Aspect social > Ghāna.
Video recordings industry > Ghana.
Video recordings > Economic aspects > Ghana.
Video recordings > Social aspects > Ghana.
Ghana
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : African popular videos as global cultural forms
  • Mapping the modern : the Gold Coast film unit and the Ghana film industry corporation
  • Work, women, and worldly wealth : global video culture and the early years of local video production
  • Professional movies and their global aspirations : the second wave of video production in Ghana
  • Tourism and trafficking : views from abroad in the transnational travel movie
  • Transcultural encounters and local imaginaries : Nollywood and the Ghanaian movie industry in the twenty-first century
  • Conclusion.

Ejemplares similares