Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: film in Nigeria, Hyginus Ekwuazi, and the Ibadan School of Media Studies -- Towards a development schema for the Nigerian film culture -- Policy environment for the film in Nigeria -- Towards reading the Nigerian film -- Towards a new filmmaking orientation: the Yoruba folkloric films -- Towards the decolonization of the Nigerian/African film -- Towards a framework for the sociology of the Nigerian film (I) -- Towards a framework for the sociology of the Nigerian film (II) -- Film audience research in Nigeria -- Production values versus audience mores: censorship -- Marketing the film in Nigeria: distribution & exhibition.
Summary:
"Film in Nigeria is an exceptional work on the scholarship of film in Nigeria and the Nigerian film. It is a pioneering in more ways than one. It was Film in Nigeria that opened up this new area of scholarship in the study of visual culture in Nigeria. Each of the ten chapters sizes up the different context of film production in Nigeria, and they cohere to provide rare information on the making of the Nigerian cinema since the colonial times. The value of this work lies in its establishment of a dynamic groundwork for the analysis and appreciation of the contexts in which films are produced and consumed in Nigeria, and in particular the Nigerian film. There is hardly any book on the subject with the rare insights of this book. This book will surely find its place in courses on African Film Studies, Mass Communications, Theatre Art Studies, Popular Culture, Policy Studies and to those interested or involved in film appreciation and production in Nigeria"-- Provided by publisher.
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