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... Since 2010 a landscape of circulations and “infrastructures” has dominated Nollywood studies. This chapter puts forward an approach in which the flows are more contingent, less directed and “leaking out” at every stage in a film’s life cycle, during both production and reception as well...

... This chapter is based on an ethnographic study of local housemaid fans of Nollywood televisual cinema in Eldoret, Kenya. It explores the social conditions that produce and at the same time marginalize the typical female domestic worker. It examines the serendipitously constructed identity...

... saignantes This chapter is based on an ethnographic study of local housemaid fans of Nollywood televisual cinema in Eldoret, Kenya. It explores the social conditions that produce and at the same time marginalize the typical female domestic worker. It examines the serendipitously constructed identity...

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... The euphoria with which Netflix was greeted among Nigerian filmmakers when it extended its business interest to Nollywood soon gave way to suspicion and controversy by scholars and lawyers. While funding and distribution, two major problems faced by the industry, are improved by Netflix’s...

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... and promotion of the label “Made in Senegal.” women online television series Senegal The euphoria with which Netflix was greeted among Nigerian filmmakers when it extended its business interest to Nollywood soon gave way to suspicion and controversy by scholars and lawyers. While funding...

... This chapter addresses the apparently contradictory idea of a queer popular. Queerness is that which destabilizes systems and norms, and thus it seems opposed to cultural normalcy. Yet what are we to make of wildly popular gay-themed films from Bollywood, Nollywood, and Southeast Asia...

... Building on the scholarship on Nollywood, this chapter shifts emphasis from earlier theorizations that the global influence of Nigerian cultural products derives from their dispersal through “informal” or “pirate” networks to international viewers of similar cultural heritage. It argues...

...Transnational Screen Worlds<subtitle>Music Video in Africa, Beyond, and Back</subtitle> Building on the scholarship on Nollywood, this chapter shifts emphasis from earlier theorizations that the global influence of Nigerian cultural products derives from their dispersal through “informal...

...Crafting the Production and Circulation of African Screen Worlds Since 2010 a landscape of circulations and “infrastructures” has dominated Nollywood studies. This chapter puts forward an approach in which the flows are more contingent, less directed and “leaking out” at every stage...