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Author Steedman, Robin, author.

Title Creative hustling : women making and distributing films from Nairobi / Robin Steedman
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Distribution matters
Distribution matters.
Contents Introduction: Female Filmmakers at Work in Nairobi -- The Makings of an Industry: Filmmaking between the Local and the Transnational -- Making Transnational Cinema -- Entrepreneurialism and Stylistic Internationalization on Screen -- Circulation and Censorship in Nairobi: On TV and Online -- Watching Film in Nairobi -- Precarity, Entrepreneurialism, and Innovation in Nairobi -- Conclusion
Summary "Creative Hustling is the first book length study about Nairobi-based female filmmakers and their labor as artists and entrepreneurs. Based on original empirical research, Steedman explores how these women pair their cinematic ability with an equally apt business acumen, contributing to a narrative of what it takes to succeed as a filmmaker in Nairobi. This book theorizes "hustling" as a creative practice and an innovative mode of working-one that can teach us new lessons about what it takes to produce and distribute film today, in a global age increasingly marked by flexible and precarious work"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
PERFORMING ARTS / Business Aspects
ART / Women Artists
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 23, 2023)
Subject Women motion picture producers and directors -- Kenya -- Nairobi
Motion picture producers and directors -- Kenya -- Nairobi
Women in the motion picture industry -- Kenya -- Nairobi
Motion pictures -- Kenya -- Nairobi -- Distribution
Motion picture producers and directors
Motion pictures -- Distribution
Women in the motion picture industry
Women motion picture producers and directors
Kenya -- Nairobi
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022014242
ISBN 9780262372671
0262372673
9780262372688
0262372681