Description
What makes Lagos remarkable is what residents have made of it, and Nollywood-the industry and the body of films-both embodies and represents this continual urban transformation. Lagos Never Spoils traces how Nollywood arose from the social milieu of Lagos and, in turn, generates a repertoire of stories, images, styles, and sentiments with which audiences come to grips with city life. The book traces the evolution of the screen media industry in Lagos and explores how this corresponds with historical phases in the city's representation onscreen. It discusses important urban spaces of production and consumption, including historic movie halls, video marketplaces, film sets, and multiplex cinemas. Across six chapters, it attends to celluloid films about oil-boom wealth, television sitcoms about urban tricksters, video melodramas about urban crisis, glossy romantic comedies about young professionals, and dark thrillers on streaming platforms about the pleasure of moral transgression. In this fashion, the book offers new approaches to the interpretation of screen texts produced in and about Lagos, a place that is today the most influential image of West African city life.
About the Author
Connor Ryan is Lecturer in World Cinema at the University of Bristol.
Book Information
ISBN 9780472075799
Author Connor Ryan
Format Hardback
Page Count 280
Imprint The University of Michigan Press
Publisher The University of Michigan Press
Series African Perspectives
Weight(grams) 272g