Viewing African cinema in the twenty-first century: art films and the Nollywood video revolution

Introduction / Ralph A. Austen and Mahir Șaul

The "problem" of Nollywood. What is to be done? film studies and Nigerian and Ghanaian videos / Jonathan Haynes

Nollywood and its critics / Onookome Okome

Ghanaian popular video movies between state film policies and Nollywood : discourses and tensions / Birgit Meyer

Islam, Hausa culture, and censorship in Northern Nigerian video film / Abdalla Uba Adamu

Nollywood goes east : the localization of Nigerian video films in Tanzania / Matthias Krings

Imported films and their African audiences. Commentary and orality in African film reception / Vincent Bouchard

Songs, stories, action! audience preferences in Tanzania, 1950s-1980s / Laura Fair

FESPACO/art film in the light of Nollywood. Art, politics, and commerce in francophone African cinema / Mahir Șaul

Outside the machine? donor values and the case of film in Tanzania / Jane Bryce

Emitaï : basic stylistic elements: shot length, camera movement, and character movement / Peter Rist

Curses, nightmares, and realities : cautionary pedagogy in FESPACO films and Igbo videos / Stefan Sereda

The return of the Mercedes : from Ousmane Sembene to Kenneth Nnebue / Lindsey Green-Simms

U.S. distribution of African film : California Newsreel's Library of African Cinema : a case study / Cornelius Moore.