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Contemporary African screen worlds /

"Contemporary African Screen Worlds explores the ways in which African audiences engage with their media worlds as both producers and consumers. The essays, many of which are written by authors within Africa, address political-economic and cultural aspects of media production, emphasizing the m...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dovey, Lindiwe (Editor), Agina, Añulika (Editor), Thomas, Michael W., 1990- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.
Subjects:
Motion picture industry > Social aspects > Africa.
Motion picture audiences > Africa.
Mass media and culture > Africa.
Mass media > Social aspects > Africa.
Mass media > Political aspects > Africa.
Cinéma > Industrie > Aspect social > Afrique.
Cinéma > Publics > Afrique.
Médias et culture > Afrique.
Médias > Aspect social > Afrique.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Jonathan Haynes
  • Introduction / Lindiwe Dovey, Añulika Agina, and Michael W. Thomas
  • We need new screens : MTV Shuga Naija, Youth sexual agency, and the "mobile screen" / Temitayo Olofinlua
  • Maîtresse d'un homme marié : retracing womanhood in Senegalese screen worlds / Estrella Sendra
  • Netflix in Nigeria : disruptor or enabler? / Añulika Agina
  • Examining the " opportunities" : M-Net's Zambezi Magic Channel and the emerging Zambian film industry / Elastus Mambwe
  • Circulations in Nollywood studies : locations, studios, and distribution / Alexander Bud
  • The entrepreneurialism and enterprise of film students in redefining Ghana's creative landscape / Dennis-Brook Prince Lotsu
  • The "female only filmmakers" project in South Africa / Lindiwe Dovey
  • Female film entrepreneurs in Ghana : focus on Shirley Frimpong-Manso and Evelyn Asampana / Robin Steedman and Rashida Resario
  • Domestic disturbance : Afro-feminist poetics in Dilman Dila's Ugandan "Horror Romances" / Nedine Moonsamy
  • Fashioning African screen worlds : La noire de . . . and Les saignantes / Alexandra Grieve
  • Nollywood cinema and its housemaids' fandom in Eldoret, Kenya / Solomon Waliaula
  • Archival films in contemporary archives : Fragmented legacies of a North African women's film heritage / Stefanie Van de Peer
  • Cinema in the church : the evangelical film worldview in Nigeria / Elizabeth Olayiwola
  • Tezeta in motion : a glimpse into a performative Ethiopian screen world / Michael W. Thomas and Asteway Mellese
  • Hillywood and beyond : forms of spectatorship and screen worlds in Rwanda / Alison MacAulay
  • FESPACO @ fifty : forms, formats, platforms, and African screen media / Pier Paolo Frassinelli
  • Music video and the transnationalism of Nigerian screen media / Femi Eromosele
  • Rolling to "A-Free-Ka" : seeing and hearing the transmedia screen worlds of Kahlil
  • Joseph's "Cheeba" / Joe Jackson
  • Afterword 1. The political worlds of African screen media / Alessandro Jedlowski
  • Afterword 2. Africa's contemporary screen media era and questions of autonomy / Moradewun Adejunmobi