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Nollywood Stars Noah A. Tsika

Nollywood Stars By Noah A. Tsika

Nollywood Stars by Noah A. Tsika


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Nollywood Stars: Media and Migration in West Africa and the Diaspora by Noah A. Tsika

In this comprehensive study of Nollywood stardom around the world, Noah A. Tsika explores how the industry's top on-screen talents have helped Nollywood to expand beyond West Africa and into the diaspora to become one of the globe's most prolific and diverse media producers. Carrying VHS tapes and DVDs onto airplanes and publicizing new methods of film distribution, the stars are active agents in the global circulation of Nollywood film. From Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde's cameo role on VH1's popular series Hit the Floor to Oge Okoye's startling impersonation of Lady Gaga, this book follows Nollywood stars from Lagos to London, Ouagadougou, Cannes, Paris, Porto-Novo, Sekondi-Takoradi, Dakar, Accra, Atlanta, Houston, New York, and Los Angeles. Tsika tracks their efforts to integrate into various entertainment cultures, but never to the point of effacing their African roots.

Nollywood Stars Reviews

There is no doubt that this is a pioneering book, one that raises important questions about the transnational and transmedial dimensions of an emergent, corporate culture of stardom and models an entirely new approach to the study of African movies and media.

* African Studies Review *

Nollywood Stars is a revelation. It will introduce readers to one of the most significant global centers of film production, Nigeria, and to a film culture that is significantly different from that of Hollywood . . . This is an important work. Essential.

* Choice *

Noah Tsika's Nollywood Stars is a pioneering book that makes a significant contribution to the growing body of scholarship on African screen media and the critical emergent field of Nollywood studies.

* Velvet Light Trap *

About Noah A. Tsika

Noah A. Tsika is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
A Note on Orthography and Taxonomy
Introduction: Global Stars in Nigeria's Postindependence Firmament: From Ossie Davis to Doctor Bello
1. From Yoruba to YouTube: Studying Nollywood's Star System
2. Glittering Video: Format, Fashion, and the Materiality of Nollywood Stardom
3. A Mobile Glow: Nollywood Stardom and Corporate Globalism
4. When Stars Collide: Lady Gaga and the Pirating of a Globalized Persona
5. Nollywood's Progeny: Stardom and the Politics of Youth Empowerment
6. Professionalizing Childhood: Nollywood and the New Youth Transnationalism
Afterword: Honoring Nollywood Stars
Filmography
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Additional information

NLS9780253015754
9780253015754
0253015758
Nollywood Stars: Media and Migration in West Africa and the Diaspora by Noah A. Tsika
New
Paperback
Indiana University Press
2015-04-10
374
N/A
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