Inhalt: | Subjects of indirect rule : Nigeria, cinema, and liberal empire -- Emergency of the state : television, pedagogical imperatives, and the village headmaster -- "No romance without finance" : feminine melodrama, soap opera, and the male breadwinner ideal -- Breadlosers : masculine melodrama, money magic, and the moral occult economy -- Specters of sovereignty : epic, gothic, and the ruins of a past that never was -- "What's wrong with 419?" : comedy, corruption, and conspiratorial mirrors. "In Indirect Subjects, Matthew H. Brown argues that screen media can play spatial roles in global power relations. Brown focuses on Nollywood, Nigeria's commercial film industry, which emerged in the 1990s, but places it in the context of other local screen media, particularly state television, which has been a feature of Nigerian culture since the 1960s"-- |
