Matthew H. Brown

Indirect Subjects

Nollywood's Local Address

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Matthew H. Brown explores the connections between Nigeria's booming film industry, state television, and colonial legacies that together involve spectators in global capitalism while denying them its privileges.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9781478013280
• ISBN-10: 1478013281
• Artikelnr.: 60594400

Autorenporträt

Matthew H. Brown

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction: Indirect Subjectivities and Periliberalism  1
Part I.
1. Subjects of Indirect Rule: Nigeria, Cinema, and Liberal Empire  33
2. Emergency of the State: Television, Pedagogical Imperatives, and The
Village Headmaster  66
Part II.
3. "No Romance without Finance": Feminine Melodrama, Soap Opera, and the
Male Breadwinner Ideal  99
4. Breadlosers: Masculine Melodrama, Money Magic, and the Moral Occult
Economy  150
5. Specters of Sovereignty: Epic, Gothic, and the Ruins of a Past That
Never Was  185
6. "What's Wrong with 419"?: Comedy, Corruption, and Conspiratorial
Mirrors  221
Conclusion: Fantasies of Integration or Fantasies of Sovereignty  263
Notes  271
Filmography  285
Bibliography  289
Index  303