African Video Movies and Global Desires

African Video Movies and Global Desires
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Publisher : Ohio University Press
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9780896804845
ISBN-13 : 0896804844
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Book Synopsis African Video Movies and Global Desires by : Carmela Garritano

Download or read book African Video Movies and Global Desires written by Carmela Garritano and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana’s commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production. Produced and consumed under circumstances of dire shortage and scarcity, African video movies narrate the desires and anxieties created by Africa’s incorporation into the global cultural economy. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research conducted in Ghana over a ten-year period, as well as close readings of a number of individual movies, this book brings the insights of historical context as well as literary and film analysis to bear on a range of movies and the industry as a whole. Garritano makes a significant contribution to the examination of gender norms and the ideologies these movies produce. African Video Movies and Global Desires is a historically and theoretically informed cultural history of an African visual genre that will only continue to grow in size and influence.


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