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Focusing on the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the world beyond Nigeria, the Nollywood and Beyond conference expanded on yet another aspect the de facto pan-africanism of Nigerian video film (to quote John McCall) and the emergence of its audiences beyond the borders of Nigeria. Inspired by the success of this transdisciplinary approach, we convened our own conference in May 2009 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Both of us took part in this conference and also contributed to the collection of published essays titled Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century that came out of it. Austen, had brought together not only film scholars and social scientists but also for the first time in such scholarly meetings researchers, critics, and even practitioners of the two dominant and very different filmmaking practices of the African continent: the Nollywood video film and art house cinema (of largely Francophone provenance).

Transgressing Boundaries: Reinterpretation of Nollywood Films in Muslim Northern Nigeria Abdalla Uba Adamu Karishika with Kiswahili Flavor: A Nollywood Film Retold by a Tanzanian Video Narrator Matthias Krings Bloody Bricolages: Traces of Nollywood in Tanzanian Video Films Claudia BГ¶hme 327 List of Contributors 347 General Index 353 Film Title Index 369ДЁ Preface and Acknowledgments The original inspiration for this book goes back to the African Film conference that took place at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in The conveners of this remarkable conference, Mahir Ећaul and Ralph A. Nollywood in Urban Southern Africa: Nigerian Video Films and Their Audiences in Cape Town and Windhoek Heike Becker Religion, Migration, and Media Aesthetics: Notes on the Circulation and Reception of Nigerian Films in Kinshasa Katrien Pype African Movies in Barbados: Proximate Experiences of Fear and Desire Jane Bryce Consuming Nollywood in Turin, Italy Giovanna Santanera Nigerian Videos and Their Imagined Western Audiences: The Limits of Nollywood s Transnationality Babson Ajibade 264 Part 4. Nollywood and Postcolonial Predicaments: Transnationalism, Gender, and the Commoditization of Desire in Glamour Girls Paul Ugor 158 Part 3. The Nollywood Diaspora: A Nigerian Video Genre Jonathan Haynes Nollywood Made in Europe Sophie Samyn Made in America: Urban Immigrant Spaces in Transnational Nollywood Films Claudia Hoffmann Reversing the Filmic Gaze: Comedy and the Critique of the Postcolony in Osuofia in London Onookome Okome 139Д§ 7. From Nollywood to Nollyworld: Processes of Transnationalization in the Nigerian Video Film Industry Alessandro Jedlowski Nollywood s Transportability: The Politics and Economics of Video Films as Cultural Products Jyoti Mistry and Jordache A. PN N55G dc The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI ZД¦ Contents Preface and Acknowledgments vii Nollywood and Its Diaspora: An Introduction Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome 1 Part 1. Krings, Matthias,, editor of compilation. pages cm (African expressive cultures) Includes bibliographical references and index.

Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Global Nollywood : the transnational dimensions of an African video film industry / edited by Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome. The Association of American University Presses Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. Masolo Elisha Renne ZoГ« StrotherД¤ Global Nollywood The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry EDITED BY Matthias Krings AND Onookome Okome In d ia n a U n iv er sit y Pr ess Bloomington & IndianapolisДҐ This book is a publication of Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana USA Telephone orders Fax orders by Indiana University Press All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. 3 African Expressive Cultures Patrick McNaughton, editor Associate Editors Catherine M.

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