Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas by Johnson, Elizabeth

Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498524742)

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Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas by Johnson, Elizabeth

Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas

$98.00
Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas by Johnson, Elizabeth

Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas

$98.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book investigates how identities for West African women are created and recreated through the broad interplay of Nollywood film viewing on social and individual levels. Since many Nollywood films are freely accessible online, the role of online communities repurposes Nollywood films. Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas addresses if this is a good or bad promoter of critical consciousness, as many of the films depict the stifling of women. The authors examine nine Nollywood melodramas through Black feminist, cultivation, audience reception, and social identity theories. Readers will gain an understanding of how Nollywood is a product and contributor to evolving processes of globalization. Recommended for scholars of film studies, communication, African studies, and women studies.

Author: Elizabeth Johnson, Donald Culverson
ISBN-10: 1498524745
ISBN-13: 9781498524742
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 09/09/2016
Pages: 180
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.80d
By Elizabeth Johnson
By Elizabeth Johnson
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Dr. Elizabeth Johnson is an Associate Professor of History and Social Sciences at Governors State University. She is the author of Resistance and Empowerment in Black Women's Hairy Styling. She has published articles in the following journals: World Literary Review, MP: An Online Feminist Journal, and Southwest Journal of Cultures. Her research and speaking interests are grounded in group identity and critical race theory including hair aesthetics, body image, nineteenth-century U.S. history, and media representations of ethnicity and gender. Dr. Donald Culverson is a University Professor of Political Science and Justice Studies at Governors State University. He is the author of Contesting Apartheid: U. S. Activism, 1960-1987. He has published articles in the following journals: Political Science Quarterly, Race and Class, and Transafrica Forum. His research focuses on globalization and its relationship to racial inequality.

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