The Nollywood Project

Select research publications on Nollywood available on-line

Adeniran, Makinde

Nigerian home video: a worthwhile project"? Africultures. publié le 04/04/2003. (html)

Barlet, Olivier

"Senegal: putting their faith in digital." Africultures. publié le 23/07/2004. (html)
"Is the Nigerian home video model exportable ?" Africultures. publié le 28/11/2003. (html)

Emeagwali, Gloria (ed.)

Africa Update. Vol. XI, Issue 2 (Spring 2004): Issue dedicated to "The Nigerian Film Industry." With contributions by Tayo Aderinokun, Femi Odugbemi, Toyin Akinosho and Jahman Anikulapo. (html)

Haynes, Jonathan

"Nollywood": What's in a Name?" The Guardian. July 3, 2005. (html)

Larkin, Brian

"The Materiality of Cinema Theaters in Northern Nigeria." Chapter for Media Worlds: Anthropology on a New Terrain. Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod and Brian Larkin eds. Forthcoming. University of California Press. (html)

McCall, John C.

"Juju and Justice at the Movies: Vigilantes in Nigerian Popular Videos." African Studies Review. 2004. 47(3): 51-67. (html)
"Nollywood Confidential: the unlikely rise of Nigerian video film." Transition Magazine. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University. 2004. 95: 98-109. (pdf) [Reprinted in: The Fader. 2005, 26:116-132.] (pdf)
"Madness, Money, and Movies: Watching Nigerian Popular Videos with a Native Doctor's Guidance." Africa Today. 49(3): 78-94. (pdf)

Meyer, Birgit

"'Praise the Lord’": Popular cinema and pentecostalite style in Ghana’s new public sphere." American Ethnologist. 2004. 31 (1): 92-110, (pdf)
"Prayers, Guns and Ritual Murder. Popular Cinema and Its New Figures of Power and Success." (English translation of the French published text) Research Centre Religion and Society, University of Amsterdam. (html)
"Visions of Blood, Sex and Money. Fantasy Spaces in Popular Ghanaian Cinema." Research Centre Religion and Society, University of Amsterdam. (html)

Meyer, Birgit and Brian Larkin

"Modern Mass Media, Religion And The Imagination Of Communities." Online photo essays. Research Centre Religion and Society / Amsterdam School for Social Science Research. University of Amsterdam. (html)

Ofeimun, Odia

"In Defence of the Films We Have Made" West Africa Review. Keynote Address at the 2nd National Film Festival, 27th November, 2003. (html)

Okome, Onookome

"The Popular Art of African Video-Film." New York Fine Arts Quarterly. Summer 2001. (html)

Onishi, Norimitsu

"Step Aside, L.A. and Bombay, for Nollywood." The New York Times. September 16, 2002. (html)



Site Navigator Home Nollywood? Research Archive People a project of the SIUC			Select research publications on Nollywood available on-line Adeniran, Makinde Nigerian home video: a worthwhile project"? Africultures. publié le 04/04/2003. (html) Barlet, Olivier "Senegal: putting their faith in digital." Africultures. publié le 23/07/2004. (html) "Is the Nigerian home video model exportable ?" Africultures. publié le 28/11/2003. (html) Emeagwali, Gloria (ed.) Africa Update. Vol. XI, Issue 2 (Spring 2004): Issue dedicated to "The Nigerian Film Industry." With contributions by Tayo Aderinokun, Femi Odugbemi, Toyin Akinosho and Jahman Anikulapo. (html) Haynes, Jonathan "Nollywood": What's in a Name?" The Guardian. July 3, 2005. (html) Larkin, Brian "The Materiality of Cinema Theaters in Northern Nigeria." Chapter for Media Worlds: Anthropology on a New Terrain. Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod and Brian Larkin eds. Forthcoming. University of California Press. (html) McCall, John C. "Juju and Justice at the Movies: Vigilantes in Nigerian Popular Videos." African Studies Review. 2004. 47(3): 51-67. (html) "Nollywood Confidential: the unlikely rise of Nigerian video film." Transition Magazine. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University. 2004. 95: 98-109. (pdf) [Reprinted in: The Fader. 2005, 26:116-132.] (pdf) "Madness, Money, and Movies: Watching Nigerian Popular Videos with a Native Doctor's Guidance." Africa Today. 49(3): 78-94. (pdf) Meyer, Birgit "'Praise the Lord’": Popular cinema and pentecostalite style in Ghana’s new public sphere." American Ethnologist. 2004. 31 (1): 92-110, (pdf) "Prayers, Guns and Ritual Murder. Popular Cinema and Its New Figures of Power and Success." (English translation of the French published text) Research Centre Religion and Society, University of Amsterdam. (html) "Visions of Blood, Sex and Money. Fantasy Spaces in Popular Ghanaian Cinema." Research Centre Religion and Society, University of Amsterdam. (html) Meyer, Birgit and Brian Larkin "Modern Mass Media, Religion And The Imagination Of Communities." Online photo essays. Research Centre Religion and Society / Amsterdam School for Social Science Research. University of Amsterdam. (html) Ofeimun, Odia "In Defence of the Films We Have Made" West Africa Review. Keynote Address at the 2nd National Film Festival, 27th November, 2003. (html) Okome, Onookome "The Popular Art of African Video-Film." New York Fine Arts Quarterly. Summer 2001. (html) Onishi, Norimitsu "Step Aside, L.A. and Bombay, for Nollywood." The New York Times. September 16, 2002. (html)
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