Afolayan: Auteuring Nollywood
Critical Perspectives on The Figurine| By: | null |
| Publisher: | University of Nairobi Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9789780698287 |
| eText ISBN: | 9789789400690 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Beginning from an auteur standpoint, this book interrogates extant cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigerian postcolonial realities in Nollywood. It makes a case, using Kunle Afolayan�s The Figurine, for a critical space-clearing gesture around the notion of a neo-Nollywood, which transcends the formulaic cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigeriam realities to embrace a visionary and philosophic rearticualtion of the role of filmmaking, and of Nollywood, in the Nigerian imagination. The Idea of neo-Nollywood, and a visionary director, therefore stands at the core of a cinematic production process that challenges, disturbs and stimulates perceptions of current and future African identities.