1st Edition
African Media in an Age of Extraction Nollywood Geographies
By Noah Tsika
Copyright 2025
360 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
African Media in an Age of Extraction takes a fresh, site-specific look at the relationship between moving images and the mining of natural resources, arguing that where we “place” Nollywood and other industries has important practical and conceptual consequences. Such locations are not just spatial metaphors but also tangible geographies with material connections to extractive economies. Sites... Read more
Acknowledgments, Introduction: Nollywood's Spatial Frames, Chapter 1: Resource Cinemas: Sites, Symbols, and Specters of Extraction, Chapter 2: Breaking African Ground: Location Shooting and the Search for Resource Enclaves, Chapter 3: Dredging Nollywood: Corporations, Land Reclamation, and the Lure of Neoliberalism, Chapter 4: Twilight Forests: Cinema and Deforestation, Chapter 5: Bad Fuel: Oil Consciousness from Hollywood to Nollywood, Conclusion: Environments of Interaction, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Noah Tsika is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Queens College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. His books include Nollywood Stars: Media and Migration in West Africa and the Diaspora and Cinematic Independence: Constructing the Big Screen in Nigeria.
