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African Media in an Age of Extraction
Nollywood Geographies
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2025
Author / Editor information
Tsika Noah :
Noah Tsika is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Queens College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. His books include Nollywood Stars: Media and Migration in West Africa and the Diaspora and Cinematic Independence: Constructing the Big Screen in Nigeria.
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Frontmatter
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Tabel of Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Nollywood’s Spatial Frames
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1. Resource Cinemas: Sites, Symbols, and Specters of Extraction
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2. Breaking African Ground: Location Shooting and the Search for Resource Enclaves
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3. Dredging Nollywood: Corporations, Land Reclamation, and the Lure of Neoliberalism
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4. Twilight Forests: Cinema and Deforestation
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5. Bad Fuel: Oil Consciousness from Hollywood to Nollywood
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Conclusion: Environments of Interaction
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Bibliography
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Index
353
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
January 15, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9789048561261
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
360
Illustrations:
20
eBook ISBN:
9789048561261
Keywords for this book
Nigeria; Africa; Film; Hollywood; transnationalism; globalization; extractivism; ecomedia
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
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BY-NC-ND 4.0
