Auteuring Nollywood : Critical Perspectives on The Figurine.
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| Author / Creator: | Afolayan, Adeshina. |
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| Imprint: | Ibadan : University Press, Nigeria, 2014. ©2014 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (481 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11307306 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION. Philosophy, (Neo- ) Nollywood and the African Predicament
- Background and motif
- Modernity and the imperative of vision
- Philosophy at Nollywood
- Nollywood as paradigmatic practice
- Neo-Nollywood as exemplary practice
- Why The Figurine? The Nigerian filmmaker as auteur
- Prefiguring The Figurine
- Notes
- References
- Part I
- ARAROMIRE IN NOLLYWOOD
- 1. The Figurine: The Interplay of the Mysterious, the Orchestrated and the Coincidental
- Introduction
- Kunle Afolayan and the Nollywood scenario
- The mysterious, the orchestrated and the coincidental: Fathoming the aesthetics of suspense in The Figurine
- Conclusion
- References
- 2. The Figurine and the "Torn" Individual
- Background
- The problem
- Nollywood in perspective
- Nollywood's misrepresentation of Yoruba tradition
- Nollywood's islands of hope
- Of modernity and tradition
- The Yoruba world view
- Figuring out The Figurine
- Mental map and reality
- Causality and the African mode of thought
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 3. Striving with the Gods: The Figurine and the Double-Bind of Realism and the Supernatural
- Introduction
- The magical and the empirical
- Conclusion
- References
- 4. Animist Order and the Ghost of Modernity in Kunle Afolayan's The Figurine
- Introduction
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
- 5. Araromire's Cross: A Human Dilemma
- Introduction
- A further elaboration on Araromire
- Drawing on analogy
- Conclusion
- References
- 6. Local Going Global: Comparing the International Narrative Appeal of Araromire (The Figurine) and Love in the Time of Cholera
- Films
- Books
- 7. Alter/Native Film Narratives in Nollywood and The Figurine
- Introduction
- Alter/Natives film narratives.
- The mask code in African cinema
- Techniques and motif
- On postmodernism and The Figurine
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
- 8. Nigerian Video Film and the Conundrum of Language: Observatory Notes on Kunle Afolayan's Araromire and Irapada
- Introduction
- Language and Nigerian literary arts
- A Filmmaker's experiment with language in Araromire and Irapada
- Concluding remarks
- Filmography
- References
- Part II
- NOLLYWOOD AND BEYOND
- 9. The Home Video Industry and Nigeria's Cultural Development
- The background
- The traditional theatre films and videos
- The mass society and the mass media
- The Nigerian film versus the Nigerian home video
- Conclusion: Home video and television as precursors of the new media
- References
- 10. Audio-Visual Griots: On the Historiography of the Indigenous Yoruba Video Film in Nigeria
- Introduction: The Nigerian video film
- the Nigerian video film and its antecedents
- Historiophory and Nigerian video films
- Yoruba videos and politics
- Conclusion
- References
- 11. The Crippled Cinema of a Crippled Nation? Preliminary Notes on Nollywood and the Nigerian State
- Introduction: Nigeria @ 50
- The repression of the state
- National cinema, national ambitions
- Interrogating Nollywood
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- 12. Nollywood and the Discursive Mediation of Identity, Nationhood and Social Anxiety
- Introduction
- Conclusion
- References
- 13. Towards a Morality of the African Film
- Introduction
- Why only the film director?
- What is morality?
- What morality?
- Film as a work of art
- What type of a film?
- Conclusion
- References
- 14. Nollywood: How Far? How Much Further
- The evolution of Nollywood
- The content of the Nollywood film
- Marketing the Nollywood film
- The Nollywood audience
- Wither Nollywood?
- Notes
- References.
- Part III
- INTERVIEWS
- Of The Figurine, "Neo Nollywood" and the Politics of Film Festivals in Africa
- The Story, the Script and the Movie
- Cinematography Within Limitations
- Set Design Beyond Nollywood
- The Excitement of a Story
- AFTERWORD
- Neo-Nollywood and Its Other
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
- Back cover.