by Jonathan Haynes
edited by Jonathan Haynes
Ohio University Press, 2000
Paper: 978-0-89680-211-7 | eISBN: 978-0-89680-418-0
Library of Congress Classification PN1992.934.N6N55 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.4309669

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Nigerian video films—dramatic features shot on video and sold as cassettes—are being produced at the rate of nearly one a day, making them the major contemporary art form in Nigeria. The history of African film offers no precedent for such a huge, popularly based industry. The contributors to this volume, who include film and television directors, an anthropologist, and scholars of film studies and literature, take a variety of approaches to this flourishing popular art. Topics include aesthetic forms and distribution; the configurations of various ethnic audiences; the new media environment dominated by cassette technology; the video’s materialism in a period of economic collapse; transformation of the traditional Yoruba traveling theater; individualism and the moral crisis in Igbo society; Hausa cultural values; the negotiation of gender roles, and the genre of Christian videos.

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