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About: two books on African Cinema

Fri, 5 Dec 1997 10:50:48 -0800 (PST)

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    Originally dated: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 10:50:48 -0800 (PST)

    > From: Jonathan M Haynes <jhaynes@panther.middlebury.edu>
    >
    > Subject: two books on african cinema
    >
    > I have copies for sale of two books published in Nigeria by the
    > Nigerian Film Corporation. They are not otherwise available in the
    > United
    > States.
    >
    >
    > CINEMA AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN WEST AFRICA, by Onookome Okome and
    > Jonathan Haynes. Jos, Nigeria: Nigerian Film Corporation, 1995;
    > revised edition 1997. 122 pp.
    >
    > I. NIGERIAN CINEMA: STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENTS
    > Jonathan Haynes
    >
    > II. THE CONTEXT OF FILM PRODUCTION IN NIGERIA: THE COLONIAL
    > HERITAGE Onookome Okome
    >
    > III. FILM IN FRANCOPHONE WEST AFRICA: A SKETCH
    > Jonathan Haynes
    >
    > IV. CINEMA AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN NIGERIA: THE POLITICAL
    > IMPERATIVE Onookome Okome
    >
    > V. RETURNING TO THE AFRICAN VILLAGE: "SANGO MALO" AND "TA
    > DONA" Jonathan Haynes
    >
    > VI. THE CHARACTER OF POPULAR INDIGENOUS CINEMA IN NIGERIA
    > Onookome Okome
    >
    >
    > NIGERIAN VIDEO FILMS, ed. Jonathan Haynes. Ibadan: Kraft Books for
    > the
    > Nigerian Film Corporation, 1997. 136 pp.
    >
    > This is the first book on Nigerian video films, which are now being
    > produced at a rate of about one a day. On the basis of sheer
    > commercial
    > vitality and narrative energy they can claim to be the major
    > contemporary
    > Nigerian art form. The contributors, who include film and television
    > directors and an anthropologist as well as scholars in film studies
    > and
    > literature, take a variety of approaches to this flourishing popular
    > art.
    >
    >
    > I. FROM FILM TO VIDEO
    > Afolabi Adesanya
    >
    > II. EVOLVING POPULAR MEDIA: NIGERIAN VIDEO FILMS
    > Jonathan Haynes and Onookome Okome
    >
    > III. FROM FOLK OPERA TO SOAP OPERA: IMPROVISATIONS AND
    > TRANSFORMATIONS IN YORUBA POPULAR THEATRE
    > Wole Ogundele
    >
    > IV. THE IGBO VIDEO FILM: A GLIMPSE INTO THE CULT OF THE
    > INDIVIDUAL
    > Hyginus Ekwuazi
    >
    > V. "ONOME": ETHNICITY, CLASS, GENDER
    > Onookome Okome
    >
    > VI. THE RHETORIC OF NIGERIAN CHRISTIAN VIDEOS: THE WAR PARADIGM
    > OF "THE GREAT MISTAKE"
    > Obododimma Oha
    >
    > VII. CULTURE AND ART IN HAUSA VIDEO FILMS
    > Dul Johnson
    >
    > VIII. HAUSA DRAMAS AND THE RISE OF VIDEO CULTURE IN NIGERIA
    > Brian Larkin
    >
    >
    > Each volume is $9, plus $3 for shipping and handling. Send checks to
    >
    > Jonathan Haynes
    > 16 Springside Rd.
    > Middlebury, VT 05753
    >

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