Brian Larkin

Signal and Noise

Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the role of media technologies in shaping urban Africa through an ethnographic study of popular culture in northern Nigeria.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2008
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780822340904
• ISBN-10: 0822340909
• Artikelnr.: 23369744

Autorenporträt

Brian Larkin is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is a coeditor of Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Infrastructure, the Colonial Sublime, and Indirect Rule 16
2. Unstable Objects: The Making of Radio in Nigeria 48
3. Majigi, Colonial Film, State Publicity, and the Political Form of Cinema
73
4. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema 123
5. Immaterial Urbanism and the Cinematic Event 146
6. Extravagant Aesthetics: Instability and the Excessive World of Nigerian
Film 168
7. Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure
of Piracy 217
Conclusion 242
Notes 257
Bibliography 277
Index 301