Madness, Money, and Movies

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

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3751146
AutoresJohn C Mccall (autor de correspondencia)
Año2002
Volumen49
Número3
Páginas79-94
Fecha de publicación2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAfrica Today (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0001-9887 • E-ISSN: 1527-1978
EditorialIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/at.2003.0028
OpenAlexW2008012361
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias 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