Nollywood on the Move: Nigeria on display

Ugochukwu, Francoise (2013). Nollywood on the Move: Nigeria on display. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag (forthcoming).

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Abstract

PART I – EXPOSING HOME TRUTHS

1. Scholars on Nollywood: a fast growing interest
2. Achebe’s legacy, from book to screen
3. Meeting with the ghosts – Nigerian videos and their ancestral ties
4. Nigerian video-films on History: daring to screen the hurt
5. Threatened childhood: a disturbing reality
6. Witchcraft, pastors and native doctors
7. Women in need – the widows’ plight
8. Taboos – how far have we gone?

PART II – REACHING OUT

9. A nation on the road
10. Across languages - issues in subtitling, dubbing and translation
11. The reception and impact of Nollywood in France
12. The Eldorado mirage
13. NGOs and the Nigerian screen: the film as a tool
14. The West on Nollywood: cinematic responses
15. Language & identity: impacting diasporic communities
16. Sharing across cultures: an impossible dream?

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Item Type:	Authored Book
Copyright Holders:	2013 Wissenschaftlicher
Keywords:	Nigeria; Nollywood; video film; reception; diaspora
Academic Unit/Department:	Education and Language Studies > Languages
Interdisciplinary Research Centre:	Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET)
Item ID:	31271
Depositing User:	Francoise Ugochukwu
Date Deposited:	17 Feb 2012 16:09
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2013 13:14
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/31271

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