How do people access movies today? What are the most popular and powerful channels for
media distribution on a global scale? How are film industries changing in the face of media …

This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography
of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and …

Interest in the area of diaspora and communication has been steadily increasing since the
mid-1990s. The idea for this collection orginated at the 1998 conference of the International …

Anthropological interest in mass communication and media has exploded in the last two
decades, engaging and challenging the work on the media in mass communications …

Since the emergence of its video industry in the 1990s, Nigeria has pioneered an innovative
and highly successful model of film production and distribution. Lagos is now home to the …

This essay provides an overview of the video film phenomenon in Nigeria and Ghana. When
dire economic circumstances killed off celluloid film production in both countries in the …

“Drop me at the Plaza.”“Meet me at the El Dorado.” These casual directions highlight the role
of cinema theaters as built spaces in the urban geography of Kano, Northern Nigeria. Large …

Film and Urban Space: Critical Possibilities traces recurring debates about what constitutes
film's political potential and argues that the relation between film and urban space has been …

As a result of the liberalisation and commercialisation of the media in the wake of Ghana's
return to a democratic constitution in 1992, there has emerged a new public sphere which …

ABSTRACT In Calabar, Nigeria, young women envisage their futures to be full of
possibilities. By contrast, their present realities often see them stuck in the house enduring …