Audience Reception Of Benin Cinema In Nigeria
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| Author | : Osakue Stevenson Omoera |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 189 |
| Release | : 2024-03-19 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 152755516X |
This book signposts Benin (Edo) cinema as one of the vibrant new frontiers in the performing arts of Nigeria, underscoring this with critical empirical evidence. It is among the pioneering studies in this area of media production in African indigenous popular culture. In a very concrete sense, Benin cinema is a contemporary visual encyclopedia of Benin culture that can be used to consolidate the relevance of indigenous language films in Nigeria as a potential tool for national integration and international cultural diplomacy. The book interrogates the Benin-speaking audience’s reception of Benin films in Nollywood, covering both its history and its robust filmography, which is largely unexplored in present African film and media literature. Undergraduate and postgraduate students of film, theatre arts, mass communication, cultural studies, and African studies will find it an invaluable companion. Film and media studies scholars, global Nollywood practitioners, cultural archivists, and organizers of film festivals and book fairs will also find it useful.
| Author | : Germán Gil-Curiel |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2017-08-24 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 150132022X |
Taking its cue from Deleuze's definition of minor cinema as one which engages in a creative act of becoming, this collection explores the multifarious ways that music has been used in the cinemas of various countries in Australasia, Africa, Latin America and even in Europe that have hitherto received little attention. The authors consider such film music with a focus on the role it has played creating, problematizing, and sometimes contesting, the nation. Film Music in 'Minor' National Cinemas addresses the relationships between film music and the national cinemas beyond Hollywood and the European countries that comprise most of the literature in the field. Broad in scope, it includes chapters that analyze the contribution of specific composers and songwriters to their national cinemas, and the way music works in films dealing with national narratives or issues; the role of music in the shaping of national stars and specific use of genres; audience reception of films on national music traditions; and the use of music in emerging digital video industries.
| Author | : Bala A. Musa |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2019-11-16 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 3030306631 |
This book gives a panoramic view of the rise and growth of Nollywood, Nigeria’s movie and home video entertainment industry, into the second largest and most prolific movie-producing industry in the world. It offers an analysis of Nollywood’s influence as a local and global cultural force. Scholars from Africa, the African Diaspora and beyond examine the factors that have shaped Nollywood’s unique story-telling, production, and distribution system. The volume shows how internal and external economic, social, cultural and technological changes intersect to define Nollywood’s film-making and entertainment ethos. It is grounded in sound theoretical perspectives that help readers understand the texts and subtexts of the industry’s emergence, transformation, and impact. The range of subjects covered span Nollywood’s historical roots in Nigeria pre-colonial traveling/community theatre to colonial era film-making, and its contemporary spin-offs and inspired cousins across Africa and in Europe. It illuminates the interface of artistic, business, cultural and technological innovation and creativity at the heart of Africa’s local and global pop culture explosion.
| Author | : Tsaaior, James Tar |
| Publisher | : Adonis and Abbey Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2017-09-17 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1909112747 |
Collectively, the essays brought together in this book represent a discursive confluence on Nollywood as a local film culture with a global character, aspiration and reach. The governing concern of the book is that texts, including film texts, are animated by a particular sociology and anthropology which gives them concrete existence and meaning. The book argues that Nollywood, the Nigerian video film text, is deeply rooted in the sub-soil of its social and cultural milieux. Nollywood is therefore, engaged in the relentless negotiation and re-negotiation of the everyday lives of the people against the backdrop of their cultural traditions, social contradictions and the politics of their ethnic/national identity, longing and belonging. The essays weave an intricate and delicate argument about the critical role of Nollywood to the idea of nationhood and the logic of its narration with implications for language, politics and culture in Africa. The book is a valuable addition to the critical discourse on the important place of film and cinema studies in national engineering processes.
| Author | : Afolayan, Adeshina |
| Publisher | : University Press, Nigeria |
| Total Pages | : 481 |
| Release | : 2015-02-28 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780698280 |
Beginning from an auteur standpoint, this book interrogates extant cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigerian postcolonial realities in Nollywood. It makes a case, using Kunle Afolayan's The Figurine, for a critical space-clearing gesture around the notion of a neo-Nollywood, which transcends the formulaic cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigerian realities to embrace a visionary and philosophic rearticualtion of the role of film-making, and of Nollywood, in the Nigerian imagination. The Idea of neo-Nollywood, and a visionary director, therefore stands at the core of a cinematic production process that challenges, disturbs and stimulates perceptions of current and future African identities
| Author | : Mahir Saul |
| Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2010-10-12 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0821419315 |
Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century brings together a set of fascinating essays by international scholars on these contrasting cinema forms.
| Author | : Sola Adeyemi |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2019-08-05 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 152753796X |
Fémi Òsófisan is a major dramatist from Nigeria who experiments with forms and theatrical traditions. This book focuses on his development as a dramatist and his contribution to world drama as a postcolonial African writer whose major preoccupation has been to question the colonial and postcolonial issues of identity in theatre, literature and performance. The volume explores how Òsófisan exploits his Yorùbá heritage in his drama and the performances of his plays by reading new meanings into popular mythology, and by re-writing history to comment on contemporary social and political issues. Òsófisan has often introduced new motifs and narratives to energise dramatic performances in Nigeria and globally, and this text discusses developments in his theatre practices in the context of changing cultural trends.
| Author | : Eckhard Breitinger |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Chris Dunton |
| Publisher | : Bowker-Saur |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : L. Dovey |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 2015-03-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1137404140 |
Tracing the history of Africa's relationship to film festivals and exploring the festivals' impact on the various types of people who attend festivals (the festival experts, the ordinary festival audiences, and the filmmakers), Dovey reveals what turns something called a "festival" into a "festival experience" for these groups.
