> 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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