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.
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2008.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.


