Indirect Subjects : Nollywood's Local Address /

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"In Indirect Subjects, Matthew H. Brown argues that screen media can play spatial roles in global power relations. Brown focuses on Nollywood, Nigeria's commercial film industry, which emerged in the 1990s, but places it in the context of other local screen media, particularly state televi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Matthew H., 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motion pictures.
Motion picture industry.
Mass media > Political aspects.
Mass media policy.
Mass media and culture.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
Mass media policy > Nigeria.
Mass media > Political aspects > Nigeria > History.
Mass media and culture > Nigeria > History.
Motion picture industry > Nigeria > History.
Motion pictures > Nigeria > History.
Nigeria.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Subjects of indirect rule : Nigeria, cinema, and liberal empire
  • Emergency of the state : television, pedagogical imperatives, and the village headmaster
  • "No romance without finance" : feminine melodrama, soap opera, and the male breadwinner ideal
  • Breadlosers : masculine melodrama, money magic, and the moral occult economy
  • Specters of sovereignty : epic, gothic, and the ruins of a past that never was
  • "What's wrong with 419?" : comedy, corruption, and conspiratorial mirrors.

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