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- W860449301 abstract "Once criticised as ‘seemingly’ oblivious of the political and historical concerns of thestate (Osofisan, 2007; Adesokan, 2009b; Alamu, 2010; Okome, 2010; Mistry &Ellapen, 2013), some southern Nigerian filmmakers have begun reversing such criticalnarratives through negotiated images of the country’s political history. In spite of that,academic attention to such videos remains on the margins of textual or isolated audienceanalyses. This research questions the motivations, narrative techniques, underlyingideologies and reception of video films that construct Nigeria’s political past between1967 and 1998, two significant moments in the country’s postcolonial history. This isachieved through contextual and post-structuralist readings of the films as popular art aswell as semi-structured interviews of filmmakers and film journalists. The study foundthat historicizing an ethnically-diverse postcolonial state such as Nigeria through theagency of film is fraught with potential dangers, most of which cannot be mitigated bythe filmmakers. Each stage of the production/consumption process is compounded bysocietal factors including filmmaker’s background, finance, audience and censorship.Also evident from the findings is that popular Nigerian videos sustain and subvert thedominant narratives on popular arts to gain economic advantage. Whereas somefilmmakers endorse politicians’ practices, others subvert authoritarian regimes throughmetaphoric filmic codes (negotiated images) intelligible to audiences and deployed bythe producers in order to circumvent censorship. Interrogating film journalists inaddition to filmmakers served as an antidote to film producers’ self-reporting. Byexamining the reception of films through the lens of journalists, this study makes nogeneralisable claims on audiences, but delivers an original methodological approach tounderstanding films made in the past, about the past. Thus, the study proposes openingup the methodological approaches to Nollywood to accommodate film texts, producersand audiences rather than lone textual analyses that silence creators and consumers." @default.
- W860449301 created "2016-06-24" @default.
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- W860449301 date "2015-01-01" @default.
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- W860449301 title "Nigerian filmmakers and their construction of a political past (1967-1998)" @default.
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