دانلود کتاب Auteuring Nollywood: Critical Perspectives on The Figurine

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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
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