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- Title
Refashioning Gender Relations: Materiality of Love and Sex in Contemporary Nollywood.
- Authors
Borah, Abikal; Cataldo, Luis Picard; Falola, Toyin
- Abstract
This article considers the materiality of love and sex in contemporary Nollywood and argues that, in the Nigerian public sphere, a culture of refashioning gender relations is in the making. By analyzing the narrative form of two films, Tango with Me and Contract , it argues that, despite the commodified representation of transgressive sexual practices, Nollywood offers a nuanced representation of the contradictions and complexities that Nigerian society is experiencing around intimacy, sex, and marriage. It further explores the question of spectatorship through ethnographic fieldwork and examines the new language of negotiations in intimate relationships.
- Subjects
NOLLYWOOD; PUBLIC sphere; GENDER identity; CONTRACT (Film); TANGO With Me (Film); LOVE; INTIMACY (Psychology); MARRIAGE
- Publication
Africa Today, 2019, Vol 66, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
0001-9887
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/africatoday.66.1.03