UID:
almafu_9959677598902883
Format:
1 online resource (328 p.)
Series Statement:
a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Content:
Examines the role of media technologies in shaping urban Africa through an ethnographic study of popular culture in northern Nigeria.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Infrastructure, the Colonial Sublime, and Indirect Rule; 2 Unstable Objects: The Making of Radio in Nigeria; 3 Majigi, Colonial Film, State Publicity, and the Political Form of Cinema; 4 Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema; 5 Immaterial Urbanism and the Cinematic Event; 6 Extravagant Aesthetics: Instability and the Excessive World of Nigerian Film; 7 Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-4108-5
Language:
English
