Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire - Softcover

Witt, Emily

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9780997126488: Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0997126485 ISBN 13: 9780997126488
Publisher: Columbia Global Reports, 2017

Synopsis

How did Nigeria create the second largest movie industry in the world?

Nollywood began in Nigeria in the 1990s and has grown into one of the most recognized cultural centers of the world, producing more movies every year than Hollywood and almost as many as Bollywood. Emily Witt travels to Nigeria to offer a vivid, rollicking tour of the industry today, from the back alleys of the marketplaces of Lagos to the glamour of a red-carpet premiere, from startups trying to digitalize what has been largely an economy based on piracy to the shooting of a historic epic in the northern city of Jos.

Amid electricity cuts, fuel scarcity, and countless other obstacles, Nigerians are pursuing the very real possibility that Nollywood dramas could become a global brand, as recognizable as the Bollywood musical, the Hong Kong kung fu flick, or the Hollywood blockbuster.

“Emily Witt blends monograph with vivid reportage in her latest offering: a short but sweet study of Nigerian cinema.” —Financial Times

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About the Author

Emily Witt is a writer in New York City. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, GQ, n+1, The London Review of Books, and many other places. She has degrees from Brown University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and Cambridge University, and was a Fulbright scholar in Mozambique. Her first book, Future Sex, was published in 2016 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

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Publisher
Columbia Global Reports
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0997126485
ISBN 13 
9780997126488
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
128
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  • 3.43 out of 5 stars
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