Viewing African cinema in the twenty-first century art films and the Nollywood video revolution
African cinema in the 1960s originated mainly from Francophone countries. It resembled the art cinema of contemporary Europe and relied on support from the French film industry and the French state. Beginning in1969 the biennial Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou (F...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press
c2010.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
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| Sumario: | African cinema in the 1960s originated mainly from Francophone countries. It resembled the art cinema of contemporary Europe and relied on support from the French film industry and the French state. Beginning in1969 the biennial Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), held in Burkina Faso, became the major showcase for these films. But since the early 1990s, a new phenomenon has come to dominate the African cinema world: mass-marketed films shot on less expensive video cameras. These "Nollywood" films, so named because many originate in southern Nigeria, a. |
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| Descripción Física: | vii, 248 p. : il |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780821443507 |
