Indirect subjects : Nollywood's local address /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brown, Matthew H., 1979- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Subjects:	Motion pictures > Nigeria > History. Motion picture industry > Nigeria > History. Mass media and culture > Nigeria > History. Mass media > Political aspects > Nigeria > History. Mass media policy > Nigeria. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.