Jonathan Haynes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Haynes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Haynes |
| SIGNATURE | HAYNES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Long Island University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3529-6564 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Here One Minute, Gone the Next: Ridiculusmus’s attempts to create a repertoire
The Third Policeman flyer, 1992. 'Designed by that friend of our promoter in North Wales (Irish music fan) - his name was John and he was a carpenter I think' (David Woods).On 1 April 2023, Flann O
Kemi Adetiba, dir. King of Boys. 2018. 169 min. English, Yoruba, Pidgin, and Hausa, with English subtitles. Nigeria. Kemi Adetiba Visuals. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported
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Les paradigmes universitaires face aux métamorphoses de Nollywood
La forme esthétique et les infrastructures financières du cinéma populaire africain se sont transformées au cours des dernières années, entraînant une révision des paradigmes théoriques utilisés pour les étudier. Ce texte revient sur cette réflexion. Il se concentre sur trois aspects en particulier. Premièrement, je soutiens que l’analyse récente des infrastructures techniques, financières et institutionnelles qui permettent aux films africains d…
Les évolutions récentes du cinéma nigérian: Nollywood en débat
La forme esthétique et les infrastructures financières du cinéma populaire africain se sont transformées au cours des dernières années, entraînant une révision des paradigmes théoriques utilisés pour les étudier. Ce texte revient sur cette réflexion. Il se concentre sur trois aspects en particulier. Premièrement, je soutiens que l’analyse récente des infrastructures techniques, financières et institutionnelles qui permettent aux films africains d…
Keeping Up: The Corporatization of Nollywood's Economy and Paradigms for Studying African Screen Media
The politicized paradigm that has historically informed discourses on African cinema has been seriously challenged, and, since the recent intervention of transnational corporations into the production and distribution of Nigerian media, the model of the African popular arts is still necessary but no longer sufficient for framing the study of Nollywood. The corporate intervention is related to a shift in media platforms: the sale of discs is being…
Kemi Adetiba, director. The Wedding Party. 2016. 110 minutes. English, with Pidgin and Yoruba. Nigeria. The Elfike Film Collective. EbonyLife Films, FilmOne Distribution, and Inkblot Productions. On N…
Kemi Adetiba, director. The Wedding Party. 2016. 110 minutes. English, with Pidgin and Yoruba. Nigeria. The Elfike Film Collective. EbonyLife Films, FilmOne Distribution, and Inkblot Productions. On Netflix. - Volume 60 Issue 3
Nollywood: The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres
Neoliberalism, Nollywood and Lagos
Kenneth Gyang, director. Confusion Na Wa. 2013. 105 minutes. English, Pidgin, and Hausa. Nigeria. Cinema Kpatakpata. Streaming on Dobox.tv
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Nollywood till November: Memoirs of a Nollywood Insider by Charles Novia
Reviewed by: Nollywood till November: Memoirs of a Nollywood Insider by Charles Novia Jonathan Haynes Charles Novia. Nollywood till November: Memoirs of a Nollywood Insider. Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, 2012. 152 pp. $23.99. Cloth. $14.95. Paper. Novia’s title is a bit obscure (November is the name of his production company), but his subtitle is not: this is a valuable insider’s account of the Nigerian film industry by an important writer/dire…
Andy Amadi Okoroafor. Relentless. 2010. 95 min. With Gideon Okeke, Nneka Egbuna, and Jimmy Jean-Louis. France and Nigeria. English. Clam Films. No price reported
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A bibliography of academic work on Nigerian and Ghanaian video films
A literature review: Nigerian and Ghanaian videos
The main purpose of this review of the published academic literature on Nigerian and Ghanaian video films is to foster self-awareness in this new field of study. This literature has been produced on three continents and out of many academic disciplines; in consequence, scholars tend to make few references to others working in the field, debates have been rare, and there has been a great deal of repetition. African Cinema studies, as it had alread…
Nnebue: The anatomy of power
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Nollywood: What's in a name
Video Boom: Nigeria and Ghana
This essay provides an overview of the video film phenomenon in Nigeria and Ghana. When dire economic circumstances killed off celluloid film production in both countries in the 1980s, video technology allowed feature film making on video to flourish as a popular art. A leaky distribution system keeps budgets very low, but the films are churned out in prodigious numbers. Ghanaian production is centered in Accra and is mostly in English; Nigerian …
Nollywood in Lagos, Lagos in Nollywood Films
Nollywood—the Lagos-based Nigerian industry—has become the third-largest industry in the world, and it is by far the most powerful purveyor of an image of Nigeria to domestic and foreign populations. It consists of many small producers working with tiny amounts of capital; it therefore has not been able to build its own spaces—studios, theaters, office complexes—and remains nearly invisible in the Lagos cityscape, apart from posters and the films…
Focus on African Films (review)
Mobilising Yoruba Popular Culture: Babangida Must Go
Nigerian video films are often characterised as apolitical. A rare and significant exception is Gbenga Adewusi's Maradona (also known as Babangida Must Go), which was released in 1993 in response to the annulment of the 12 June 1993 presidential election by the military ruler Ibrahim Babangida. The film is a fierce denunciation of the annulment and of the whole political regime, employing a number of Yoruba and transnational cultural forms: the c…
African Cinema and its Criticism
Sembène: Imagining alternatives in film and fiction, by David Murphy. Oxford: James Currey and Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2001. xi + 275 pp. £14.95 paperback. ISBN 0‐85255‐5555‐5. Symbolic Narratives/African Cinema: Audiences, theory and the moving image, edited by June Givanni. London: British Film Institute, 2000. xvi + 256 pp. £40.00 hardback. ISBN 0‐85170‐737‐8. African Cinemas: Decolonizing the gaze, by Olivier Barlet. London and New Y…
The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater
Introduction 2. The History of a Founder, a Genre, and a Public 3. The Actors 4. Getting a Show on the Road 5. The Generation of Plays 6. The Filling Out a Play 7. Audiences 8. Television, Film, and Video 9. The World of the Work: Place, Gender, and Politics 10. Literacy, Enlightenment, and Tradition 11. Work, Destiny, and Self-making 12. Language and the Moral Public 13. Conclusion: The Lessons of Example Appendix 1: Synopses Appendix 2: Yoruba …
Ken Saro-Wiwa: Writer and Political Activist
Nigerian Video Films
Nigerian video films
Nigerian video films dramatic features shot on video and sold as cassettes are being produced at the rate of nearly one a day, making them the major contemporary art form in Nigeria. The history of African film offers no precedent for such a huge, popularly based industry. The contributors to this volume, who include film and television directors, an anthropologist, and scholars of film studies and literature, take a variety of approaches to this…
Bigots or Informed Observers? A Periodization of Pre-Colonial English and European Writing on the Middle East
Nollywood in Lagos, Lagos in Nollywood Films
Nollywood—the Lagos-based Nigerian industry—has become the third-largest industry in the world, and it is by far the most powerful purveyor of an image of Nigeria to domestic and foreign populations. It consists of many small producers working with tiny amounts of capital; it therefore has not been able to build its own spaces—studios, theaters, office complexes—and remains nearly invisible in the Lagos cityscape, apart from posters and the films…
The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater
Introduction 2. The History of a Founder, a Genre, and a Public 3. The Actors 4. Getting a Show on the Road 5. The Generation of Plays 6. The Filling Out a Play 7. Audiences 8. Television, Film, and Video 9. The World of the Work: Place, Gender, and Politics 10. Literacy, Enlightenment, and Tradition 11. Work, Destiny, and Self-making 12. Language and the Moral Public 13. Conclusion: The Lessons of Example Appendix 1: Synopses Appendix 2: Yoruba …
A literature review: Nigerian and Ghanaian videos
The main purpose of this review of the published academic literature on Nigerian and Ghanaian video films is to foster self-awareness in this new field of study. This literature has been produced on three continents and out of many academic disciplines; in consequence, scholars tend to make few references to others working in the field, debates have been rare, and there has been a great deal of repetition. African Cinema studies, as it had alread…
Mobilising Yoruba Popular Culture: Babangida Must Go
Nigerian video films are often characterised as apolitical. A rare and significant exception is Gbenga Adewusi's Maradona (also known as Babangida Must Go), which was released in 1993 in response to the annulment of the 12 June 1993 presidential election by the military ruler Ibrahim Babangida. The film is a fierce denunciation of the annulment and of the whole political regime, employing a number of Yoruba and transnational cultural forms: the c…
Video Boom: Nigeria and Ghana
This essay provides an overview of the video film phenomenon in Nigeria and Ghana. When dire economic circumstances killed off celluloid film production in both countries in the 1980s, video technology allowed feature film making on video to flourish as a popular art. A leaky distribution system keeps budgets very low, but the films are churned out in prodigious numbers. Ghanaian production is centered in Accra and is mostly in English; Nigerian …
Les paradigmes universitaires face aux métamorphoses de Nollywood
La forme esthétique et les infrastructures financières du cinéma populaire africain se sont transformées au cours des dernières années, entraînant une révision des paradigmes théoriques utilisés pour les étudier. Ce texte revient sur cette réflexion. Il se concentre sur trois aspects en particulier. Premièrement, je soutiens que l’analyse récente des infrastructures techniques, financières et institutionnelles qui permettent aux films africains d…
Keeping Up: The Corporatization of Nollywood's Economy and Paradigms for Studying African Screen Media
The politicized paradigm that has historically informed discourses on African cinema has been seriously challenged, and, since the recent intervention of transnational corporations into the production and distribution of Nigerian media, the model of the African popular arts is still necessary but no longer sufficient for framing the study of Nollywood. The corporate intervention is related to a shift in media platforms: the sale of discs is being…
Les évolutions récentes du cinéma nigérian: Nollywood en débat
La forme esthétique et les infrastructures financières du cinéma populaire africain se sont transformées au cours des dernières années, entraînant une révision des paradigmes théoriques utilisés pour les étudier. Ce texte revient sur cette réflexion. Il se concentre sur trois aspects en particulier. Premièrement, je soutiens que l’analyse récente des infrastructures techniques, financières et institutionnelles qui permettent aux films africains d…
A bibliography of academic work on Nigerian and Ghanaian video films
Festivity and the Dramatic Economy of Jonson's Bartholomew Fair
Bigots or Informed Observers? A Periodization of Pre-Colonial English and European Writing on the Middle East
Nigerian video films
Nigerian video films dramatic features shot on video and sold as cassettes are being produced at the rate of nearly one a day, making them the major contemporary art form in Nigeria. The history of African film offers no precedent for such a huge, popularly based industry. The contributors to this volume, who include film and television directors, an anthropologist, and scholars of film studies and literature, take a variety of approaches to this…
Nigerian Video Films
Ken Saro-Wiwa: Writer and Political Activist
African Cinema and its Criticism
Sembène: Imagining alternatives in film and fiction, by David Murphy. Oxford: James Currey and Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2001. xi + 275 pp. £14.95 paperback. ISBN 0‐85255‐5555‐5. Symbolic Narratives/African Cinema: Audiences, theory and the moving image, edited by June Givanni. London: British Film Institute, 2000. xvi + 256 pp. £40.00 hardback. ISBN 0‐85170‐737‐8. African Cinemas: Decolonizing the gaze, by Olivier Barlet. London and New Y…
The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater
Introduction 2. The History of a Founder, a Genre, and a Public 3. The Actors 4. Getting a Show on the Road 5. The Generation of Plays 6. The Filling Out a Play 7. Audiences 8. Television, Film, and Video 9. The World of the Work: Place, Gender, and Politics 10. Literacy, Enlightenment, and Tradition 11. Work, Destiny, and Self-making 12. Language and the Moral Public 13. Conclusion: The Lessons of Example Appendix 1: Synopses Appendix 2: Yoruba …
Mobilising Yoruba Popular Culture: Babangida Must Go
Nigerian video films are often characterised as apolitical. A rare and significant exception is Gbenga Adewusi's Maradona (also known as Babangida Must Go), which was released in 1993 in response to the annulment of the 12 June 1993 presidential election by the military ruler Ibrahim Babangida. The film is a fierce denunciation of the annulment and of the whole political regime, employing a number of Yoruba and transnational cultural forms: the c…
Focus on African Films (review)
Nnebue: The anatomy of power
Preview this article: Nnebue: the anatomy of power, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/fint/5/4/s4-1.gif
Nollywood: What's in a name
Video Boom: Nigeria and Ghana
This essay provides an overview of the video film phenomenon in Nigeria and Ghana. When dire economic circumstances killed off celluloid film production in both countries in the 1980s, video technology allowed feature film making on video to flourish as a popular art. A leaky distribution system keeps budgets very low, but the films are churned out in prodigious numbers. Ghanaian production is centered in Accra and is mostly in English; Nigerian …
Nollywood in Lagos, Lagos in Nollywood Films
Nollywood—the Lagos-based Nigerian industry—has become the third-largest industry in the world, and it is by far the most powerful purveyor of an image of Nigeria to domestic and foreign populations. It consists of many small producers working with tiny amounts of capital; it therefore has not been able to build its own spaces—studios, theaters, office complexes—and remains nearly invisible in the Lagos cityscape, apart from posters and the films…
A literature review: Nigerian and Ghanaian videos
The main purpose of this review of the published academic literature on Nigerian and Ghanaian video films is to foster self-awareness in this new field of study. This literature has been produced on three continents and out of many academic disciplines; in consequence, scholars tend to make few references to others working in the field, debates have been rare, and there has been a great deal of repetition. African Cinema studies, as it had alread…
Andy Amadi Okoroafor. Relentless. 2010. 95 min. With Gideon Okeke, Nneka Egbuna, and Jimmy Jean-Louis. France and Nigeria. English. Clam Films. No price reported
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A bibliography of academic work on Nigerian and Ghanaian video films
Nollywood till November: Memoirs of a Nollywood Insider by Charles Novia
Reviewed by: Nollywood till November: Memoirs of a Nollywood Insider by Charles Novia Jonathan Haynes Charles Novia. Nollywood till November: Memoirs of a Nollywood Insider. Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, 2012. 152 pp. $23.99. Cloth. $14.95. Paper. Novia’s title is a bit obscure (November is the name of his production company), but his subtitle is not: this is a valuable insider’s account of the Nigerian film industry by an important writer/dire…
Kenneth Gyang, director. Confusion Na Wa. 2013. 105 minutes. English, Pidgin, and Hausa. Nigeria. Cinema Kpatakpata. Streaming on Dobox.tv
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Nollywood: The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres
Neoliberalism, Nollywood and Lagos
Kemi Adetiba, director. The Wedding Party. 2016. 110 minutes. English, with Pidgin and Yoruba. Nigeria. The Elfike Film Collective. EbonyLife Films, FilmOne Distribution, and Inkblot Productions. On N…
Kemi Adetiba, director. The Wedding Party. 2016. 110 minutes. English, with Pidgin and Yoruba. Nigeria. The Elfike Film Collective. EbonyLife Films, FilmOne Distribution, and Inkblot Productions. On Netflix. - Volume 60 Issue 3
Keeping Up: The Corporatization of Nollywood's Economy and Paradigms for Studying African Screen Media
The politicized paradigm that has historically informed discourses on African cinema has been seriously challenged, and, since the recent intervention of transnational corporations into the production and distribution of Nigerian media, the model of the African popular arts is still necessary but no longer sufficient for framing the study of Nollywood. The corporate intervention is related to a shift in media platforms: the sale of discs is being…
Les paradigmes universitaires face aux métamorphoses de Nollywood
La forme esthétique et les infrastructures financières du cinéma populaire africain se sont transformées au cours des dernières années, entraînant une révision des paradigmes théoriques utilisés pour les étudier. Ce texte revient sur cette réflexion. Il se concentre sur trois aspects en particulier. Premièrement, je soutiens que l’analyse récente des infrastructures techniques, financières et institutionnelles qui permettent aux films africains d…
Les évolutions récentes du cinéma nigérian: Nollywood en débat
La forme esthétique et les infrastructures financières du cinéma populaire africain se sont transformées au cours des dernières années, entraînant une révision des paradigmes théoriques utilisés pour les étudier. Ce texte revient sur cette réflexion. Il se concentre sur trois aspects en particulier. Premièrement, je soutiens que l’analyse récente des infrastructures techniques, financières et institutionnelles qui permettent aux films africains d…
Kemi Adetiba, dir. King of Boys. 2018. 169 min. English, Yoruba, Pidgin, and Hausa, with English subtitles. Nigeria. Kemi Adetiba Visuals. Streaming on Netflix. No price reported
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