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Author:

Steedman, Robin, author.

Title:

Creative hustling : women making and distributing films from Nairobi / Robin Steedman.

Publisher:

The MIT Press,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

211 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Women motion picture producers and directors--Nairobi.--Nairobi.
Motion picture producers and directors--Nairobi.--Nairobi.
Women in the motion picture industry--Nairobi.--Nairobi.
Motion pictures--Nairobi--Nairobi--Distribution.
Motion picture producers and directors.
Motion pictures--Distribution.
Women in the motion picture industry.
Women motion picture producers and directors.
Kenya--Nairobi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Female Filmmakers at Work in Nairobi -- The Makings of an Industry: Filmmaking between the Local and the Transnational -- Making Transnational Cinema -- Entrepreneurialism and Stylistic Internationalization on Screen -- Circulation and Censorship in Nairobi: On TV and Online -- Watching Film in Nairobi -- Precarity, Entrepreneurialism, and Innovation in Nairobi -- Conclusion

Summary:

"Creative Hustling is the first book length study about Nairobi-based female filmmakers and their labor as artists and entrepreneurs. Based on original empirical research, Steedman explores how these women pair their cinematic ability with an equally apt business acumen, contributing to a narrative of what it takes to succeed as a filmmaker in Nairobi. This book theorizes "hustling" as a creative practice and an innovative mode of working-one that can teach us new lessons about what it takes to produce and distribute film today, in a global age increasingly marked by flexible and precarious work"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Distribution matters

ISBN:

0262544830
9780262544832

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1309396093

LCCN:

2022014241

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)