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Alexander Bud
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Foreword ix
- Acknowledgments xv
- Introduction. Exploring Screen Worlds 1
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PART I. MOBILE SCREEN WORLDS AND THE TELEVISUAL TURN IN AFRICA
- 1 We Need New Screens: MTV Shuga Naija, Youth Sexual Agency, and the “Mobile Screen” 19
- 2 Maîtresse d’un homme marié: Retracing Womanhood in Senegalese Screen Worlds 35
- 3 Netflix: The Enabling Disruptor in Nigeria 53
- 4 Examining the “Opportunities”: M-Net’s Zambezi Magic Channel and the Emerging Zambian Film Industry 75
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PART II. CRAFTING THE PRODUCTION AND CIRCULATION OF AFRICAN SCREEN WORLDS
- 5 From Infrastructures to Treehouses: Circulations in Nollywood Distribution, Locations, and Craft 91
- 6 Entrepreneurialism and Enterprise: Film Students Redefining Ghana’s Creative Landscape 113
- 7 South Africa’s Female Only Filmmakers Project: From On-Screen to Calling the Shots 127
- 8 Female Film Entrepreneurs in Ghana: Shirley Frimpong-Manso and Evelyn Asampana in Focus 139
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PART III. ENGENDERING SCREEN REPRESENTATION, SPECTATORSHIP, AND CURATION
- 9 Domestic Disturbance: Afro-Feminist Poetics in Dilman Dila’s Ugandan “Horror Romances” 153
- 10 Fashioning African Screen Worlds: La noire de . . . and Les saignantes 167
- 11 Nollywood Cinema and Its Housemaids’ Fandom: The Case of Eldoret, Kenya 185
- 12 Archival Films in Contemporary Archives: Fragmented Legacies of a North African Women’s Film Heritage 201
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PART IV. THEATRICAL SCREEN WORLDS: IN THE CHURCH, CINEMAS, VIDEO HALLS, AND HILLS
- 13 Cinema in the Church: The Evangelical Film Worldview in Nigeria 217
- 14 Tezeta in Motion: A Glimpse into a Performative Ethiopian Screen World 233
- 15 Hillywood and Beyond: Forms of Spectatorship and Screen Worlds in Rwanda 245
- 16 FESPACO @ Fifty: Forms, Formats, Platforms, and African Screen Media 257
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PART V. TRANSNATIONAL SCREEN WORLDS: MUSIC VIDEO IN AFRICA, BEYOND, AND BACK
- 17 Music Video and the Transnationalism of Nigerian Screen Media: Watching Falz’s “This is Nigeria” 269
- 18 Rolling to “A-Free- Ka”: Seeing and Hearing the Transmedia Screen Worlds of Kahlil Joseph’s “Cheeba” 283
- Afterword 1. The Political Worlds of African Screen Media 297
- Afterword 2. Africa’s Contemporary Screen Media Era and Questions of Autonomy 301
- Filmography 307
- References 311
- Contributors 337
- Index 343
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Foreword ix
- Acknowledgments xv
- Introduction. Exploring Screen Worlds 1
-
PART I. MOBILE SCREEN WORLDS AND THE TELEVISUAL TURN IN AFRICA
- 1 We Need New Screens: MTV Shuga Naija, Youth Sexual Agency, and the “Mobile Screen” 19
- 2 Maîtresse d’un homme marié: Retracing Womanhood in Senegalese Screen Worlds 35
- 3 Netflix: The Enabling Disruptor in Nigeria 53
- 4 Examining the “Opportunities”: M-Net’s Zambezi Magic Channel and the Emerging Zambian Film Industry 75
-
PART II. CRAFTING THE PRODUCTION AND CIRCULATION OF AFRICAN SCREEN WORLDS
- 5 From Infrastructures to Treehouses: Circulations in Nollywood Distribution, Locations, and Craft 91
- 6 Entrepreneurialism and Enterprise: Film Students Redefining Ghana’s Creative Landscape 113
- 7 South Africa’s Female Only Filmmakers Project: From On-Screen to Calling the Shots 127
- 8 Female Film Entrepreneurs in Ghana: Shirley Frimpong-Manso and Evelyn Asampana in Focus 139
-
PART III. ENGENDERING SCREEN REPRESENTATION, SPECTATORSHIP, AND CURATION
- 9 Domestic Disturbance: Afro-Feminist Poetics in Dilman Dila’s Ugandan “Horror Romances” 153
- 10 Fashioning African Screen Worlds: La noire de . . . and Les saignantes 167
- 11 Nollywood Cinema and Its Housemaids’ Fandom: The Case of Eldoret, Kenya 185
- 12 Archival Films in Contemporary Archives: Fragmented Legacies of a North African Women’s Film Heritage 201
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PART IV. THEATRICAL SCREEN WORLDS: IN THE CHURCH, CINEMAS, VIDEO HALLS, AND HILLS
- 13 Cinema in the Church: The Evangelical Film Worldview in Nigeria 217
- 14 Tezeta in Motion: A Glimpse into a Performative Ethiopian Screen World 233
- 15 Hillywood and Beyond: Forms of Spectatorship and Screen Worlds in Rwanda 245
- 16 FESPACO @ Fifty: Forms, Formats, Platforms, and African Screen Media 257
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PART V. TRANSNATIONAL SCREEN WORLDS: MUSIC VIDEO IN AFRICA, BEYOND, AND BACK
- 17 Music Video and the Transnationalism of Nigerian Screen Media: Watching Falz’s “This is Nigeria” 269
- 18 Rolling to “A-Free- Ka”: Seeing and Hearing the Transmedia Screen Worlds of Kahlil Joseph’s “Cheeba” 283
- Afterword 1. The Political Worlds of African Screen Media 297
- Afterword 2. Africa’s Contemporary Screen Media Era and Questions of Autonomy 301
- Filmography 307
- References 311
- Contributors 337
- Index 343