Global Nollywood: the transnational dimensions of an African video film industry

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Preface and Acknowledgments Nollywood and Its Diaspora: An Introduction Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome Part 1. Mapping the Terrain 1. From Nollywood to Nollyworld: Processes of Transnationalization in the Nigerian Video Film Industry Alessandro Jedlowski 2. Nollywood's Transportability: The Politics and Economics of Video Films as Cultural Products Jyoti Mistry and Jordache A. Ellapen Part 2. Transnational Nollywood 3. The Nollywood Diaspora: A Nigerian Video Genre Jonathan Haynes 4. Nollywood Made in Europe Sophie Samyn 5. Made in America: Urban Immigrant Spaces in Transnational Nollywood Films Claudia Hoffmann 6. Reversing the Filmic Gaze: Comedy and the Critique of the Postcolony in Osuofia in London Onookome Okome 7. Nollywood and Postcolonial Predicaments: Transnationalism, Gender, and the Commoditization of Desire in Glamour Girls Paul Ugor Part 3. Nollywood and Its Audiences 8. Nollywood in Urban Southern Africa: Nigerian Video Films and Their Audiences in Cape Town and Windhoek Heike Becker 9. Religion, Migration, and Media Aesthetics: Notes on the Circulation and Reception of Nigerian Films in Kinshasa Katrien Pype 10. African Movies in Barbados: Proximate Experiences of Fear and Desire Jane Bryce 11. Consuming Nollywood in Turin, Italy Giovanna Santanera 12. Nigerian Videos and Their Imagined Western Audiences: The Limits of Nollywood's Transnationality Babson Ajibade Part 4. Appropriations of Nollywood 13. Transgressing Boundaries: Reinterpretation of Nollywood Films in Muslim Northern Nigeria Abdalla Uba Adamu 14. Karishika with Kiswahili Flavor: A Nollywood Film Retold by a Tanzanian Video Narrator Matthias Krings 15. Bloody Bricolages: Traces of Nollywood in Tanzanian Video Films Claudia Bohme List of Contributors Index