Madness, Money, and Movies

Watching a Nigerian Popular Video with the Guidance of a Native Doctor

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3751146
AutoresJohn C Mccall (autor correspondente)
Ano2002
Volume49
Fascículo3
Páginas79-94
Data de publicação2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAfrica Today (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0001-9887 • E-ISSN: 1527-1978
EditoraIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/at.2003.0028
OpenAlexW2008012361
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências citadas19

The emergence of a popular video movie industry in Nigeria reveals a need for critical reevaluation of the field of African cinema. Video movies are now viewed in the homes of millions of Africans who never had access to, or perhaps even interest in, the celluloid film productions of African cinematographers. Produced by self-trained artists, these movies fall outside current paradigms of academic film criticism. This paper examines one such movie as a cultural narrative cited by an Igbo native doctor in an ethnographic interview. Analysis of the movie positions it in relation to the cultural links developed in the interview. These links include an indigenous model of madness, popular representations of global capitalism, and socioeconomic conditions in Nigeria as Nigerians interpret them

Advertising · Art · Business · Criticism · Ethnography · Film industry · Igbo · Indigenous · Literature · Media studies · Movie theater · Narrative · Nigerians · Political science · Popular culture · Sociology · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Anthropology · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Law · South Asian Cinema and Culture