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2-3: Artistic Epistemologies: Black Cinema and the Idea of Africa
  • ISSN: 1754-9221
  • E-ISSN: 1754-923X

Abstract

Nollywood’s global diffusion is presently dependent as much on American corporations like Netflix and Amazon – prominent sources of streaming versions of Nollywood films – as on continuous Afro-diasporic practices of bootlegging and gift exchange. But its past was at least as haunted by Hollywood as its much-streamed, multiplexed present. This article considers the longstanding imbrication of Nollywood and Hollywood as generative of multiple, contested ‘images of Africa’, arguing that we must resist binary oppositions between the two geocultural sites of cinema and instead insist on a productive and persistent entwinement.

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