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Film International #28


Out now - FI #28! A special issue devoted to African video film, guest edited by Onookome Okome. In this unique issue of Film International, a wide variety of scholars explore the current African film climate, with spotlights on Nollywood, sexuality, religion, colonialism, African identity, hallelujah video films, Hausa film culture, magical realism, and much, much more. Plus: DVD and book reviews!


Contents Film International #28

Appearing Fabu-lous: From Tender Romance to Horrifying Sex
by Frances Harding

"Looking at Ourselves in Our Mirror": Agency, Counter-Discourse, and the Nigerian Video Film
by Chukwuma Okoye

Nnebue: The Anatomy of Power
by Jonathan Haynes

The Act and Art of Seeing Visual Media in West Africa: TV and Video in Northern Côte d'Ivoire
by Till Förster

Creating the Balance: Hallelujah Masculinities in a Ghanaian Video Film
by Wisdom Agorde

The Hausa Video Film: The Call of the Muezzin
by Hyginus Ekwuazi

Magical Realism and the "Power" of Nollywood Home Video Films
by Hope Eghagha

Currying Favour: Eastern Media Influences and the Hausa Video Film
by Abdalla Uba Adamu

The Pan-Africanism We Have: Nollywood's Invention of Africa
by John C. McCall

Women, Religion and Guilt in Hausa Home Video: An Assessment
by Aminu Fagge Mohammad

"Nollywood": What's in a Name?
by Jonathan Haynes

The "Nollywood Rising" Conference
by Brian Larkin

Nollywood Comes to the Caribbean
by Philip Cartelli

DVD Reviews: Letters from Iwo Jima (Bryan Nixon), Kicking and Screaming (Liza Palmer), Army of Shadows (Tim Palmer)

Book Reviews: Roman Polanski: The Cinema of a Cultural Traveller (Davide Caputo), The Face on the Screen: Death, Recognition & Spectatorship (Stephanie Dickison)
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