From “Makers of Images” to Cineastes? Looking Critically at Festivals and Critics’ Reception of Nollywood

At its inception in the early 1990s, the Nollywood film movement did not attract a positive appraisal from most “learned” critics. Its non-conformist approach to filmmaking made most critics to associate it with the act of just “making images” as well as a lack of respect for cinema. Even major fil...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Floribert Patrick C. Endong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Pittsburgh 2023-10-01
Series:CINEJ Cinema Journal
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Online Access:http://cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/cinej/article/view/533