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Auteuring Nollywood
Critical Perspectives on The Figurine
Beginning from an auteur standpoint, this book interrogates extant cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigerian postcolonial realities in Nollywood. It makes a case, using Kunle Afolayan's The Figurine, for a critical space-clearing gesture around the notion of a neo-Nollywood, which transcends the formulaic cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigerian realities to embrace a visionary and philosophic rearticualtion of the role of film-making, and of Nollywood, in the Nigerian imagination. The Idea of neo-Nollywood, and a visionary director, therefore stands at the core of a cinematic production process that challenges, disturbs and stimulates perceptions of current and future African identities.
ISBN 9789780698287 | 480 pages | 229 x 152mm | 2014 | University Press, Nigeria, Nigeria | Paperback
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"With this volume a considerable volume of Nigerian scholars and Nollywood specialists have come together. The result is probably as unique in African cinema studies as the film itself… It presages a new, positive development in Global South cinema studies where the great interest of the public in popular cinemas will have spawned an important body of scholarship."
- Kenneth Harrow, Michigan State University, Author of Postcolonial African Cinema
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"This book is seminal in its inauguration of a new chapter in the study of Nigeria’s phenomenal contribution to global film culture… it makes a strong case for a more in-depth artistic and critical approach to the study of Nollywood that triangulates around orality, Third Cinema. and auteur theoretical perspective."
- Nduka Otiono, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa
