African video movies and global desires : a Ghanaian history /
This book presents a scholarly study of Ghana's commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production. Produced and consumed under circumstances of dire shortage and scarcity, Afric...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Research in international studies. Africa series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : African popular videos as global cultural forms
- Mapping the modern : the Gold Coast film unit and the Ghana film industry corporation
- Work, women, and worldly wealth : global video culture and the early years of local video production
- Professional movies and their global aspirations : the second wave of video production in Ghana
- Tourism and trafficking : views from abroad in the transnational travel movie
- Transcultural encounters and local imaginaries : Nollywood and the Ghanaian movie industry in the twenty-first century
- Conclusion.
