African Theatre 10: Media and Performance - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847010385 ISBN 13: 9781847010384

Publisher: James Currey, 2011

Synopsis

Examines the impact of new media (such as video and YouTube) and the use of multi-media on live and recorded performance in Africa.

Focuses on the ways African theatre and performance relate to various kinds of media. Includes contributions on dance; popular video, with an emphasis on video drama and soaps from Eastern and Southern Africa, and the Nigerian 'Nollywood' phenomenon; the interface between live performance and video (or still photography), and links between on-line social networks and new performance identities. As a group the articles raise, from original angles, the issues of racism, gender, identity, advocacy and sponsorship.

Volume Editor: DAVID KERR is Professor of English in the University of Botswana, and is the author of African Popular Theatre

Series Editors: Martin Banham, Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre Studies, University of Leeds; James Gibbs, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of the West of England; Femi Osofisan, Professor of Drama at the University of Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds; Yvette Hutchison, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick

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About the Author

Femi Osofisan is an internationally lauded playwright, scholar, poet, novelist, actor, director, songwriter, and activist and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan was awarded the Thalia Prize in 2016. He has published five novellas, six volumes of poetry, and more than 50 plays.

Edition details

• Publisher: James Currey
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847010385
• ISBN 13: 9781847010384
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174
• Editor: Banham Martin, Gibbs James, Osofisan Femi