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- Title
'New' Nollywood Video Films and the Post/Nationality of Nigeria's Film Culture.
- Authors
Tsaaior, James Tar
- Abstract
Nollywood, Nigeria's signature video-film culture, has had its fortunes significantly impacted or improved since the early 1990s when it emerged as a powerful cultural production site in the national imaginary. Nollywood has since travelled from its aboriginal Nigerian homeland and transgressed national boundaries to become a truly global film phenomenon with postnational aspirations and global ambitions. The global enactment of energies by this film tradition has occasioned a transition from 'old' Nollywood to what is now called 'neo' or 'new' Nollywood. 'New' Nollywood, therefore, represents a trajectory that has inaugurated a new dispensation of big budget films and excellence in sophisticated storytelling with an experimental and improvisational character. It has also introduced complicated and unpredictable plot structures, more accomplished characterization, and improved picture quality. There is also greater directorial competence and rounded scripts with more technical depth and cultural verisimilitude. There also exists higher professional acumen and integrity and more robust attention to the minutiae of post-production details. In addition, there have been increased collaborations between Nollywood and other film cultures in the areas of joint starring in films, settings in international locations, and circulation reach. This 'new' ideal radically contrasts with 'old' Nollywood. In this article, I engage the postnationality of Nollywood, which is manifest in its traveling patterns and its transgression of cartographic boundaries to engage diasporic communities around the world. Of particular interest to me are how Nollywood has emerged as the third biggest film industry in the world, after Hollywood and Bollywood, from its humble Nigerian beginnings and how this postnational character has been acquired and sustained.
- Subjects
NOLLYWOOD; TELEVISION film; TELEVISION broadcasting of films; CULTURAL production; CULTURAL industries
- Publication
Research in African Literatures, 2018, Vol 49, Issue 1, p145
- ISSN
0034-5210
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/reseafrilite.49.1.09