1 / 18

Nollywood – Nigerian Video Films: From Rages to Riches Lecture 1

Nollywood – Nigerian Video Films: From Rages to Riches Lecture 1 http://nollywoodvienna.wordpress.com/. Derek Barker www.derekbarker.info Dr.Derek.Barker@gmail.com. Course Description I.

lelac
Télécharger la présentation

Nollywood – Nigerian Video Films: From Rages to Riches Lecture 1

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Nollywood – Nigerian Video Films: From Rages to RichesLecture 1 http://nollywoodvienna.wordpress.com/ Derek Barker www.derekbarker.info Dr.Derek.Barker@gmail.com

  2. Course Description I The course will trace the phenomenon of self-financed African produced video films in Nigeria tracing an arc from the early 1990s to the present. The African film industry has undergone radical changes that reflect an increasingly globalized economy, technological innovations and rapid developments in patterns of cultural production and consumption. This revolution is characterized by the low-budget video camera made films commonly referred to as Nollywood.

  3. Course Description II While these films have come under criticism for their low production value and popularization of negative cultural stereotypes, the Nigerian video industry has risen to enormous proportions and has risen far beyond its initial local audience focus to reach all of Africa and beyond. The purpose of this course is to examine the rise of Nollywood and the genesis of a popular African art form.

  4. Course Description III Through a combination of films and readings, students will explore how Nollywood, in comparison with the established FESPACO film industry and Hollywood, depicts the society and culture of Nigeria, and Africa as a whole. In addition, the course will engage students in debates on how popular films affect historical imaginations and memory. This course will introduce Nollywood and provide students with the necessary theoretical tools to understand and decode this phenomenon.

  5. Lecture Venue Lecture venue: Seminar Room 1, Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, Austria Time: 15h00 - 17h00

  6. Lecture Dates • Lecture 1: October 17, 2014 • Lecture 2: October 24, 2014 • Lecture 3: October 31, 2014 • Lecture 4: November 14, 2014 • Lecture 5: November 21, 2014 • Lecture 6: November 28, 2014

  7. Lecture Dates • Lecture 7: December 5, 2015 • Lecture 8: December 12, 2014 • Lecture 9: January 9, 2015 • Lecture 10: January 16, 2015 • Lecture 11: January 23, 2015 • EXAM: January 30, 2015

  8. Aims of the Course • To gain a broad overview of the history and developments in Nollywood video film production • To obtain a broad understanding of theoretical approaches to popular cultural production

  9. Aims of the Course • To undertake ideological analyses of film • To obtain an in-depth understanding of the current state affairs in the Nigerian film industry

  10. And…

  11. Aims of the Course • To have fun!

  12. Pre-viewing questions Documentary: “Nollywood Babylon” - About the video film phenomenon in Nigeria; follows inter alia the making of “Bent Arrows” directed by Lancelot OduwaImasuen Where & when did the phenomenon of Nollywood originate?

  13. Pre-viewing questions 2 2) What was the title of the first major Nollywood film? 3) What are the major themes of Nollywood films? 4) Why do Nigerians not go to the cinema?

  14. Pre-viewing Questions 3 5) What production budgets are mentioned in the documentary? (Note: 5 euro = 1,000 Nigerian Naira; 5000 euro = 1 million Nigerian Naira) 6) Who controls production? Government Europeans? Directors? Actors? Distributors / “Marketers”?

  15. Pre-viewing questions 4 7) Who is the primary target audience? 8) Who are the arbiters of “taste” or “quality”? 9) How are films distributed and consumed?

  16. Living in Bondage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJjt1abCv34

  17. Homework Before Lecture 2 (Friday 24 October) do 2 things: Watch “Living in Bondage” Read “Lights, Camera, Africa!”

  18. The beginnings The first true Nollywood film resulted from an ill-advised business venture. In 1992 Kenneth Nnebue, a trader, ordered a large consignment of blank videotapes from Taiwan. Finding them hard to sell, he hired a theatre director to make a cheap film and copied it onto the tapes to boost their appeal. "Living in Bondage", the story of a farmer in a big city who loses his wife and is haunted by her ghost, sold more than half a million copies.

More Related