{"product_id":"indirect-subjects-9781478013280","title":"Indirect Subjects","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew H. Brown explores the connections between Nigeria's booming film industry, state television, and colonial legacies that together involve spectators in global capitalism while denying them its privileges.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eIndirect Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious work providing an overview of film in Nigeria from its earliest days, through the height of state television to the rise of Nollywood. It also offers a rethinking of this history by examining the political, economic, and aesthetic logics that tie this history together. This is an insightful work for both scholars and students analyzing iconic films and television series in a new way. Doing so, it offers a new understanding of political aesthetics in Nigeria.” -- Brian Larkin, author of * Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria *\u003cbr\u003e“Matthew H. Brown's \u003ci\u003eIndirect Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e applies acuity and sophistication to Nollywood in ways that push the terms of debate beyond anything currently conceived. This is at once theoretically nuanced and historically informed, attentive to the dynamics of the industry as well as to the specific subject matter of the movies. In a word, a real gift offering to a field already dotted with sparkling scholarly gems.” -- Ato Quayson, author of * Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eIndirect Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e]\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a valuable and generative contribution to African media studies. ...  Brown’s access to rare archival materials allows him to offer what is, perhaps, the most sustained investigation of the links between state television and video films to date.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Connor Ryan * African Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eIndirect Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e] adeptly explores the conjunctures and ruptures in the modalities of addressing the audience through different times and spaces in screen media history. ... This book makes a rich contribution to studies of the political economy of culture broadly and, more specifically, to the study of screen media in Nigeria by exposing the rifts and shifts in the neoliberal matrix that undergird it.\" -- Rosemary Oyinlola Popoola * Canadian Journal of African Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Indirect Subjectivities and Periliberalism  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I.\u003cbr\u003e 1. Subjects of Indirect Rule: Nigeria, Cinema, and Liberal Empire  33\u003cbr\u003e 2. Emergency of the State: Television, Pedagogical Imperatives, and \u003ci\u003eThe Village Headmaster\u003c\/i\u003e  66\u003cbr\u003e Part II.\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"No Romance without Finance\": Feminine Melodrama, Soap Opera, and the Male Breadwinner Ideal  99\u003cbr\u003e 4. Breadlosers: Masculine Melodrama, Money Magic, and the Moral Occult Economy  150\u003cbr\u003e 5. Specters of Sovereignty: Epic, Gothic, and the Ruins of a Past That Never Was  185\u003cbr\u003e 6. \"What's Wrong with 419\"?: Comedy, Corruption, and Conspiratorial Mirrors  221\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Fantasies of Integration or Fantasies of Sovereignty  263\u003cbr\u003e Notes  271\u003cbr\u003e Filmography  285\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  289\u003cbr\u003e Index  303","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49372072247639,"sku":"9781478013280","price":75.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/indirect-subjects-9781478013280","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}