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5 From Infrastructures to Treehouses: Circulations in Nollywood Distribution, Locations, and Craft

  • Alexander Bud
© 2025 Duke University Press, Durham, USA

© 2025 Duke University Press, Durham, USA

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Foreword ix
  4. Acknowledgments xv
  5. Introduction. Exploring Screen Worlds 1
  6. PART I. MOBILE SCREEN WORLDS AND THE TELEVISUAL TURN IN AFRICA
  7. 1 We Need New Screens: MTV Shuga Naija, Youth Sexual Agency, and the “Mobile Screen” 19
  8. 2 Maîtresse d’un homme marié: Retracing Womanhood in Senegalese Screen Worlds 35
  9. 3 Netflix: The Enabling Disruptor in Nigeria 53
  10. 4 Examining the “Opportunities”: M-Net’s Zambezi Magic Channel and the Emerging Zambian Film Industry 75
  11. PART II. CRAFTING THE PRODUCTION AND CIRCULATION OF AFRICAN SCREEN WORLDS
  12. 5 From Infrastructures to Treehouses: Circulations in Nollywood Distribution, Locations, and Craft 91
  13. 6 Entrepreneurialism and Enterprise: Film Students Redefining Ghana’s Creative Landscape 113
  14. 7 South Africa’s Female Only Filmmakers Project: From On-Screen to Calling the Shots 127
  15. 8 Female Film Entrepreneurs in Ghana: Shirley Frimpong-Manso and Evelyn Asampana in Focus 139
  16. PART III. ENGENDERING SCREEN REPRESENTATION, SPECTATORSHIP, AND CURATION
  17. 9 Domestic Disturbance: Afro-Feminist Poetics in Dilman Dila’s Ugandan “Horror Romances” 153
  18. 10 Fashioning African Screen Worlds: La noire de . . . and Les saignantes 167
  19. 11 Nollywood Cinema and Its Housemaids’ Fandom: The Case of Eldoret, Kenya 185
  20. 12 Archival Films in Contemporary Archives: Fragmented Legacies of a North African Women’s Film Heritage 201
  21. PART IV. THEATRICAL SCREEN WORLDS: IN THE CHURCH, CINEMAS, VIDEO HALLS, AND HILLS
  22. 13 Cinema in the Church: The Evangelical Film Worldview in Nigeria 217
  23. 14 Tezeta in Motion: A Glimpse into a Performative Ethiopian Screen World 233
  24. 15 Hillywood and Beyond: Forms of Spectatorship and Screen Worlds in Rwanda 245
  25. 16 FESPACO @ Fifty: Forms, Formats, Platforms, and African Screen Media 257
  26. PART V. TRANSNATIONAL SCREEN WORLDS: MUSIC VIDEO IN AFRICA, BEYOND, AND BACK
  27. 17 Music Video and the Transnationalism of Nigerian Screen Media: Watching Falz’s “This is Nigeria” 269
  28. 18 Rolling to “A-Free- Ka”: Seeing and Hearing the Transmedia Screen Worlds of Kahlil Joseph’s “Cheeba” 283
  29. Afterword 1. The Political Worlds of African Screen Media 297
  30. Afterword 2. Africa’s Contemporary Screen Media Era and Questions of Autonomy 301
  31. Filmography 307
  32. References 311
  33. Contributors 337
  34. Index 343
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