Contemporary African Screen Worlds

Herausgeber: Dovey, Lindiwe; Thomas, Michael W; Agina, Añulika

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Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary African Screen Worlds brings together a new generation of African screen media scholars who explore and theorize the dynamic, interactive screen worlds that have arisen in contemporary Africa due to dramatic global changes in technology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9781478028208
• ISBN-10: 1478028203
• Artikelnr.: 71164455

Autorenporträt

Lindiwe Dovey is Professor of Film and Screen Studies, SOAS University of London. Añulika Agina is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos. Michael W. Thomas is Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies, SOAS University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Jonathan Haynes  ix
Acknowledgments  xv
Introduction: Exploring Screen Worlds / Lindiwe Dovey, Añulika Agina, and
Michael W. Thomas  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” / Temitayo Olofinlua  19
2. Maîtresse d’un homme marié: Retracing Womanhood in Senegalese Screen
Worlds / Estrella Sendra  35
3. Netflix: The Enabling Disruptor in Nigeria / Añulika Agina  53
4. Examining the “Opportunities”: N-Net’s Zambezi Magic Channel and the
Emerging Zambian Film Industry / Elastus Mambwe  75
Part II. Crafting the Production and Circulation of African Screen Worlds
5. From Intrastructures to Treehouses: Circulations in Nollywood
Distribution, Locations, and Craft / Alexander Bud  91
6. Entrepreneurialism and Enterprise: Film Students Redefining Ghana’s
Creative Landscape / Dennis-Brook Prince Lotsu  113
7. South Africa’s Female Only Filmmakers Project: From On-Screen to Calling
the Shots / Lindiwe Dovey  127
8. Female Film Entrepreneurs in Ghana: Shirley Frimpong-Manso and Evelyn
Asampana in Focus / Robin Steedman and Rashida Resario  139
Part III. Engendering Screen Representation, Spectatorship, and Curation
9. Domestic Disturbance: Afro-Feminist Poetics in Dilman Dila’s
Ugandan “Horror Romances” / Nedine Moonsamy  153
10. Fashioning African Screen Worlds: La noire de . . . and Les saignantes
/ Alexandra Grieve  167
11. Nollywood Cinema and Its Housemaids’ Fandom: The Case of Eldoret, Kenya
/ Soloman Waliaula  185
12. Archival Films in Contemporary Archives: Fragmented Legacies of a North
African Women’s Film Heritage / Stefanie Van de Peer  201
Part IV. Theatrical Screen Worlds: In the Church, Cinemas, Video Halls, and
Hills
13. Cinema in the Church: The Evangelical Film Worldview in Nigeria /
Elizabeth Olayiwola  217
14. Tezeta in Motion: A Glimpse into a Performative Ethiopian Screen World
/ Michael W. Thomas and Asteway M. Woldemichael  233
15. Hillywood and Beyond: Forms of Spectatorship and Screen Worlds in
Rwanda / Alison Macaulay  245
16. FESPACO @ Fifty: Forms, Formats, Platforms, and African Screen Media /
Pier Paolo Frassinelli  257
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 Nigera” /  Femi Eromosele  269
18. Rolling to “A-Free-Ka”: Seeing and Hearing the Transmedia Screen Worlds
of Kahlil Joseph’s “Cheeba” /  Joe Jackson  283
Afterword 1. The Political Worlds of African Screen Media / Alessandro
Jedlowski  297
Afterword 2. Africa’s Contemporary Screen Media Era and Questions of
Autonomy / Moradewun Adejunmobi  301
Filmography  307
References  311
Contributors  337
Index  343