Description: Further DetailsTitle: Indirect SubjectsCondition: NewSubtitle: Nollywood's Local AddressISBN-10: 1478014199EAN: 9781478014195ISBN: 9781478014195Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/05/2021Description: In Indirect Subjects, Matthew H. Brown analyzes the content of the prolific Nigerian film industry's mostly direct-to-video movies alongside local practices of production and circulation to show how screen media play spatial roles in global power relations. Scrutinizing the deep structural and aesthetic relationship between Nollywood, as the industry is known, and Nigerian state television, Brown tracks how several Nollywood films, in ways similar to both state television programs and colonial cinema productions, invite local spectators to experience liberal capitalism not only as a form of exploitation but as a set of expectations about the future. This mode of address, which Brown refers to as “periliberalism,” sustains global power imbalances by locating viewers within liberalism but distancing them from its processes and benefits. Locating the wellspring of this hypocrisy in the British Empire's practice of indirect rule, Brown contends that culture industries like Nollywood can sustain capitalism by isolating ordinary African people, whose labor and consumption fuel it, from its exclusive privileges.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Matthew H. BrownGenre: HistoryItem Weight: 454gTopic: Society & Culture, Films & TVRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Indirect Subjects
Title: Indirect Subjects
Subtitle: Nollywood's Local Address
ISBN-10: 1478014199
EAN: 9781478014195
ISBN: 9781478014195
Release Date: 11/05/2021
Release Year: 2021
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Films & TV
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Indirect Subjects : Nollywood's Local Address
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Media Studies, Africa / West, Film / History & Criticism
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Social Science, History
Author: Matthew H. Brown
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
