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Nollywood: the creation of Nigerian film genres

Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press (2016), xxviii, 375 pp., illustr., filmogr. p.325-338, bibliogr. p.339-353, index
ISBN 978-0-226-38795-6 (pbk); 978-0-226-38781-9 (hbk); 978-0-226-38800-7 (ebook)
Contents
PART 1
1 Creating Nollywood: Conditions and Foundations, 3
2 Living in Bondage: Money and Values, 18
3 Nnebue's Glamour Girls: Scandalous Women, 59
4 Family Films, 77
5 Tunde Kelani, the Auteur, 113
PART 2
6 The Cultural Epic: Representing the Past, 141
7 Crime, Vigilante, and Village Films: Violence and Insecurity, 165
8 Political Films, 192
9 Comedies, 214
PART 3
10 The Nollywood Diaspora: Nigerians Abroad, 237
11 Campus Films, 257
12 New Nollywood and Kunle Afolayan, 285
Postscript, 2013: Toward the Future, 301