African Media in an Age of Extraction

This volume takes a fresh, site-specific look at the relationship between moving images and the mining of natural resources, arguing that where we "place" Nollywood and other industries has important practical and conceptual consequences.

Noah Tsika is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Queens College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. His books include Nollywood Stars: Media and Migration in West Africa and the Diaspora and Cinematic Independence: Constructing the Big Screen in Nigeria.

Acknowledgments, Introduction: Nollywood's Spatial Frames, Chapter 1: Resource Cinemas: Sites, Symbols, and Specters of Extraction, Chapter 2: Breaking African Ground: Location Shooting and the Search for Resource Enclaves, Chapter 3: Dredging Nollywood: Corporations, Land Reclamation, and the Lure of Neoliberalism, Chapter 4: Twilight Forests: Cinema and Deforestation, Chapter 5: Bad Fuel: Oil Consciousness from Hollywood to Nollywood, Conclusion: Environments of Interaction, Bibliography, Index