All Outputs (2)

Nollywood, Kannywood and a Decade of Hausa Film Censorship in Nigeria (2013)
Book Chapter
McCain, C. (2013). Nollywood, Kannywood and a Decade of Hausa Film Censorship in Nigeria. In D. Biltereyst, & R. Vande Winkel (Eds.), Silencing Cinema: Film Censorship Around the World (223-240). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137061980_14

One of the most striking stories in recent global film history is the dramatic rise of the Nigerian “video film” industry, dubbed Nollywood, a prolific low-budget film industry based in Africa’s most populous country. Turning out over a thousand feat... Read More about Nollywood, Kannywood and a Decade of Hausa Film Censorship in Nigeria.

Reimagining Gender Spaces in Abbas Sadiq and Zainab Idris's video-film Albashi (2009)
Book Chapter
McCain, C. (2009). Reimagining Gender Spaces in Abbas Sadiq and Zainab Idris's video-film Albashi. In T. Falola, & F. Ngom (Eds.), Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations (163-189). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203872659-19

In recent years, the focus on public morals versus private practice has been a major concern of Hausa artists in investigating exactly what the private/ public division means for Hausa modernity. After a background on the emergence of these new forms... Read More about Reimagining Gender Spaces in Abbas Sadiq and Zainab Idris's video-film Albashi.