Preface and Acknowledgments
A Note on Orthography and Taxonomy
Introduction: Global Stars in Nigeria's Postindependence Firmament:
From Ossie Davis to Doctor Bello
1. From Yorùbá to YouTube: Studying Nollywood's Star System
2. Glittering Video: Format, Fashion, and the Materiality of
Nollywood Stardom
3. A Mobile Glow: Nollywood Stardom and Corporate Globalism
4. When Stars Collide: Lady Gaga and the Pirating of a Globalized
Persona
5. Nollywood's Progeny: Stardom and the Politics of Youth
Empowerment
6. Professionalizing Childhood: Nollywood and the New Youth
Transnationalism
Afterword: Honoring Nollywood Stars
Filmography
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015
Noah A. Tsika is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York.
"There is no doubt that this is a pioneering book, one that raises
important questions about the transnational and transmedial
dimensions of an emergent, corporate culture of stardom and models
an entirely new approach to the study of African movies and
media."—African Studies Review
"Nollywood Stars is a revelation. It will introduce readers to one
of the most significant global centers of film production, Nigeria,
and to a film culture that is significantly different from that of
Hollywood . . . This is an important work. Essential."—Choice
"Noah Tsika's Nollywood Stars is a pioneering book that makes a
significant contribution to the growing body of scholarship on
African screen media and the critical emergent field of Nollywood
studies."—Velvet Light Trap
"Tsika makes a convincing case that one cannot fully understand
Nollywood without a thorough and rigorous examination of its stars.
He offers a complex, powerful, detailed, and engaging consideration
of the actors' performances and films, addressing their many points
of intersection with technology, advertising, music, the corporate
realm, and various formations of cultural and economic
imperialism."—Christina Lane, University of Miami
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