This module traces the roots of Nigerian popular screen culture through Yoruba theatre, television, video technology, VHS, VCD, DVD, marketers and Living in Bondage.
Learning goal
Understand the multiple origins of Nollywood through theatre, television, celluloid, video and informal markets.
Completed lessons
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Course
Nollywood and African Popular Industries
Lesson list
Lesson 1
Situate Nollywood in older popular cultures rather than treating it as a sudden invention.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Situate Nollywood in older popular cultures rather than treating it as a sudden invention.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Lesson 2
Analyze how VHS, VCD, DVD and marketers shaped popular film circulation.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Analyze how VHS, VCD, DVD and marketers shaped popular film circulation.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Lesson 3
Study Living in Bondage as a key video-film milestone and industrial turning point.
Estimated duration
60 minutes
Learning goal
Study Living in Bondage as a key video-film milestone and industrial turning point.
Reading sections
2
Resources
1
Open only when you are ready to apply this module. The complete prompts are preserved here.
Prepare an industry brief connecting at least one film, one audience, one production model and one circulation pathway.
Expected output
A sourced popular-industry brief that can support Unga Learn, CineMap, CineUbuntu or festival programming.
Quiz structure
1 question are prepared to validate the core concepts of this module.
Instructor-provided Formation 06 source material adapted into Unga Learn.