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Signal and Noise : Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria /

Examines the role of media technologies in shaping urban Africa through an ethnographic study of popular culture in northern Nigeria.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Larkin, Brian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Infrastructure, the Colonial Sublime, and Indirect Rule
  • 2 Unstable Objects: The Making of Radio in Nigeria
  • 3 Majigi, Colonial Film, State Publicity, and the Political Form of Cinema
  • 4 Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema
  • 5 Immaterial Urbanism and the Cinematic Event
  • 6 Extravagant Aesthetics: Instability and the Excessive World of Nigerian Film
  • 7 Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy
  • Conclusion.