African film
African Horror
African National Film and Video Foundate
African Romance
African screen media
Bongiwe Selane
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digitalization
Dilman Dila
DSTv
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Ethiopian Cinema
Evelyn Asampana
Falz
Female Only Filmmakers project
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film production
film spectatorship
Ghanaian film
Kahlil Joseph
Kofi Asamoah
media convergence
media fragmentation
mobile screen
MTVShuga
Muvi Television
Netflix global impact
Nigerian Church Screens
Nigerian Evangelical Films
Nigerian film
Nigerian Pentecostal Film
Nigerian screen media
Nollywood
Peter Sedufia
Rwanda Film Festival
screen media
Screen worlds
Senegal television
Shirley Frimpong-Manso
small-screens cinema
South African Film
televisual turn
Ugandan film
Zambezi magic
Zambian film
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- ISBN 9781478031420
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Contemporary African Screen Worlds brings together a new generation of African screen media scholars who explore and theorize the dynamic, interactive screen worlds that have arisen in contemporary Africa due to dramatic global changes in technology. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, extensive interviews, and specific case studies, the contributors bring to life the complex materialities and entanglements of film spectatorship, fandom, production, and circulation in Africa. They particularly attend to the interfaces among film audiences, actors, makers, platforms, and screens both small and large. Engaging with more than a dozen national contexts across the continent, the book reveals the diversity of African screen media practices and the creativity and agency of the people who passionately generate them, from film craftworkers in Nigeria and film students in Ghana to film fans in Rwanda and Burkina Faso. By focusing on the work of powerful platforms (such as Netflix and MTVShuga) and ordinary people (such as domestic workers watching Nollywood films in rural Kenya), this volume grapples with the effects and affects of digitization, mobile screens, media convergence, and the televisual turn in Africa.
Contributors. Moradewun Adejunmobi, AÑulika Agina, Alexander Bud, Lindiwe Dovey, Femi Eromosele, Pier Paolo Frassinelli, Alexandra Grieve, Jonathan Haynes, Joe Jackson, Alessandro Jedlowski, Dennis-Brook Prince Lotsu, Alison MacAulay, Elastus Mambwe, Asteway M. Woldemichael, Nedine Moonsamy, Elizabeth Olayiwola, Temitayo Olofinlua, Rashida Resario, Estrella Sendra, Robin Steedman, Michael W. Thomas, Stefanie Van de Peer, Solomon Waliaula
Contributors. Moradewun Adejunmobi, AÑulika Agina, Alexander Bud, Lindiwe Dovey, Femi Eromosele, Pier Paolo Frassinelli, Alexandra Grieve, Jonathan Haynes, Joe Jackson, Alessandro Jedlowski, Dennis-Brook Prince Lotsu, Alison MacAulay, Elastus Mambwe, Asteway M. Woldemichael, Nedine Moonsamy, Elizabeth Olayiwola, Temitayo Olofinlua, Rashida Resario, Estrella Sendra, Robin Steedman, Michael W. Thomas, Stefanie Van de Peer, Solomon Waliaula
Lindiwe Dovey is Professor of Film and Screen Studies, SOAS University of London.
AÑulika Agina is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos.
Michael W. Thomas is Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies, SOAS University of London.
AÑulika Agina is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos.
Michael W. Thomas is Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies, SOAS University of London.
