Nollywood made in Europe
- Author
- Sophie Samyn (UGent)
- Organization
- Abstract
- The history of nollywood can be traced back to the home video industry that emerged in Nigeria in the early 1990s. The video films rapidly reached an audience far beyond Nigerian borders, circulating throughout Africa and beyond and creating a buzz that soon became a media blitz. Over the past ten years, the Nigerian diaspora has been gradually integrated into Nollywood, a word that quickly became shorthand for the video phenomenon in Nigeria. It is now very popular fare in the diaspora due partly to the fact that some of the films are shot abroad, often in collaboration with expatriate...
Citation
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8697345
- MLA
- Samyn, Sophie. “Nollywood Made in Europe.” Global Nollywood : The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry, edited by Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome, Indiana University Press, 2013, pp. 100–20.
- APA
- Samyn, S. (2013). Nollywood made in Europe. In M. Krings & O. Okome (Eds.), Global Nollywood : the transnational dimensions of an African video film industry (pp. 100–120). Indiana University Press.
- Chicago author-date
- Samyn, Sophie. 2013. “Nollywood Made in Europe.” In Global Nollywood : The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry, edited by Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome, 100–120. Indiana University Press.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Samyn, Sophie. 2013. “Nollywood Made in Europe.” In Global Nollywood : The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry, ed by. Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome, 100–120. Indiana University Press.
- Vancouver
- 1.Samyn S. Nollywood made in Europe. In: Krings M, Okome O, editors. Global Nollywood : the transnational dimensions of an African video film industry. Indiana University Press; 2013. p. 100–20.
- IEEE
- [1]S. Samyn, “Nollywood made in Europe,” in Global Nollywood : the transnational dimensions of an African video film industry, M. Krings and O. Okome, Eds. Indiana University Press, 2013, pp. 100–120.
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