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Author Garritano, Carmela, 1968-

Title African video movies and global desires : a Ghanaian history / Carmela Garritano
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Research in International Studies, Africa Series ; v. 91
Research in international studies. Africa series.
Contents Introduction : African popular videos as global cultural forms -- Mapping the modern : the Gold Coast film unit and the Ghana film industry corporation -- Work, women, and worldly wealth : global video culture and the early years of local video production -- Professional movies and their global aspirations : the second wave of video production in Ghana -- Tourism and trafficking : views from abroad in the transnational travel movie -- Transcultural encounters and local imaginaries : Nollywood and the Ghanaian movie industry in the twenty-first century -- Conclusion
Summary This book presents a scholarly study of Ghana's commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production. Produced and consumed under circumstances of dire shortage and scarcity, African video movies narrate the desires and anxieties created by Africa's incorporation into the global cultural economy. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research conducted in Ghana over a ten-year period, as well as close readings of a number of individual movies, this book brings the insights of historical context as well as literary and film analysis to bear on a range of movies and the industry as a whole
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Video recordings -- Social aspects -- Ghana
Video recordings -- Economic aspects -- Ghana
Video recordings industry -- Ghana
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
Video recordings industry
Video recordings -- Social aspects
Filmwirtschaft
Videowirtschaft
Video
Ghana
Ghana
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012043475
ISBN 0896804844
9780896804845