Cinematic Independence: Constructing the Big Screen in Nigeria Tsika Noah
Cinematic Independence: Constructing the Big Screen in Nigeria Tsika Noah A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Film companies flocked to Nigeria in the years following…
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Cinematic Independence: Constructing the Big Screen in Nigeria Tsika Noah
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Film companies flocked to Nigeria in the years following independence, beginning a long history of interventions by Hollywood and corporate America. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Cinematic Independence traces the emergence, demise, and rebirth of big-screen film exhibition in Nigeria.
However, after 1999, the exhibition sector was revitalized with the construction of multiplexes. The 1980s and 1990s saw a shuttering of cinemas, which were almost entirely replaced by television and direct-to-video movies. Cinematic Independence is about the periods that straddle this disappearing act: the immediate decades bracketing independence in 1960, and the years after 1999.
At stake is the Nigerian postcolony's role in global debates about the future of the movie theater. That it was eventually resurrected