Youth culture and the struggle for social space: the Nigerian video film

Abstract This dissertation reflects on how young people in Nigeria have appropriated global media technology in forging a local cinema industry, popularly known as Nollywood. First begun as a renegade cinematic art by jobless youth in the late 1980s, Nollywood has become the third biggest film indu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ugor, Paul
Other Authors: Okome, Onookome (English and Film Studies)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10048/470