List of Illustrations List of Film Profiles Notes on Contributors Preface by Pierre Barrot Part 1. Video: The Nigerian Experience 1. "Video Is the AIDS of the Film Industry," by Pierre Barrot 2. "The Italians of Africa," by Pierre Barrot 3. Stress Warriors, by Pierre Barrot 4. "Selling Like Hot Cake: Box Office and Statistics," by Pierre Barrot 5. Audacity, Scandal, and Censorship, by Pierre Barrot 6. Informal Sector or Video Industry? by Pierre Barrot 7. Jumping on the Bandwagon, by Tunde Oladunjoye 8. Nigerian Video as a "Child of Television," by Don Pedro Obaseki 9. Hausa Video and Sharia Law, by Frederic Noy 10. Spielberg and I: The Digital Revolution, by Tunde Kelani Part 2. Nollywood and Its Conquest of Africa 11. Niger and Nollywood: The New Romantics, by Ibbo Daddy Abdoulaye 12. Kinshasa and Nollywood: Chasing the Devil, by Franck Baku Fuita and Godefroid Bwiti Lumisa 13. Kenya and Nollywood: A State of Dependence, by Ogova Ondego 14. Is the Nigerian Model Fit for Export? by Olivier Barlet Epilogue, by Pierre Barrot Films Cited Contacts Further Reading Index
Pierre Barrot works in the Department for Cultural Co-operation and Action at the French Embassy in Algiers, and was formerly the Regional Audio-Visual Attache at the French Embassy in Lagos.
"The book is rooted in a firm understanding of the economies of this new media... This is an extremely important analysis of a phenomenon, which is neither cinema nor television but nevertheless offers feature-length fictional works to a mass audience." -Roy Armes "Excellent, attractive, and valuable... the phenomenon has become so huge and the videos have spread so widely in Africa and elsewhere that they have begun to attract a good deal of attention. This book is a superb introduction to the subject." -Jonathan Haynes, Long Island University "A fascinating insight into one of the most dynamic cultural phenomena of contemporary Africa." -Graham Furniss, University of London "This is an essential book on one of the most explosive film movements in recent memory... Barrot's volume...[is] a book that belongs in all film libraries, both personal and institutional, and gives the reader the best available examination of Nollywood cinema to date..." -Senses of Cinema
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