African Video Movies and Global Desires A Ghanaian History /

Garritano, Carmela, 1968-

African Video Movies and Global Desires A Ghanaian History / [Recurso electrónico] : Carmela Garritano. - Athens : Ohio University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (284 p.) - Ohio University research in international studies, Africa series ; no. 91 . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Libro Electrónico

9780896804845




Video recordings industry--Ghana.
Video recordings--Economic aspects--Ghana.
Video recordings--Social aspects--Ghana.


Electronic books.

PN1992.934.G48 / G37 2013

384/.809667