“A revelation. It will introduce readers to one of the most significant global centers of film
production, Nigeria... an important work... Essential.”—Choice In this comprehensive study of …

Nollywood is further gaining popularity due to its transformations, which bear resemblances
to the processes of gentrification and professionalization. This is formalizing the industry as …

This article examines how genres of Nollywood soundtrack, which draw mainly from
Nigerian popular music, effectively give Nollywood film genres their unique identification …

The Nigerian film industry, often referred to as Nollywood, is currently experiencing
significant transformations in its mode of production and distribution. These far-reaching …

The Nollywood phenomenon has remarkably become an international moviemaking culture,
serving as one of the determinants of Nigerian perception formation on social and …

Deflecting the attention from Hollywood, Stars in World Cinema fills an important gap in the
study of film by bringing together Star Studies and World Cinema. A team of international …

This chapter traces the evolution of Nollywood, the self-styled Nigeria home movie industry,
from the decades of the 80s—a period that was described as the glory period of Nigerian …

This chapter offers an overview of how music is used in Nollywood comedy films. It does so
by specifically exploring both the performative and theoretical connections between comedy …

This essay argues that the study of Nollywood stardom can expand the parameters of
scholarship on southern Nigerian video films, primarily by showing how the Nollywood …

Recent years have seen increasing scholarly recognition of transnational Nigerian cinema
(“Nollywood”) as an important tool of cultural representation, and a conduit of diasporic …