Youth culture and the struggle for social space: The Nigerian video films

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" Youth culture and the struggle for social space: The Nigerian video films "
Paul Ushang Ugor

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	55297
Doc. No	:	TL25251
Call number	:	‭NR51254‬
Main Entry	:	Paul Ushang Ugor
Title & Author	:	Youth culture and the struggle for social space: The Nigerian video films\ Paul Ushang Ugor
College	:	University of Alberta (Canada)
Date	:	2009
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2009
Page No	:	282
Abstract	:	This dissertation reflects on how young people in Nigeria have appropriated global media technology in forging a local cinema industry, popularly known as Nollywood. First begun as a renegade cinematic art by jobless youth in the late 1980s, Nollywood has become the third biggest film industry in the world, next only to America's Hollywood and India's Bollywood, grossing approximately
Subject	:	Communication and the arts; Social sciences; Youth culture; Social space; Video films; Nigeria; Cultural anthropology; Film studies; 0326:Cultural anthropology; 0900:Film studies
Added Entry	:	University of Alberta (Canada)