Larkin Signal and Noise

Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8931-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Reihe: a John Hope Franklin Center Book

Examines the role of media technologies in shaping urban Africa through an ethnographic study of popular culture in northern Nigeria.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Larkin, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. Infrastructure, the Colonial Sublime, and Indirect Rule 16

2. Unstable Objects: The Making of Radio in Nigeria 48

3. Majigi, Colonial Film, State Publicity, and the Political Form of Cinema 73

4. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema 123

5. Immaterial Urbanism and the Cinematic Event 146

6. Extravagant Aesthetics: Instability and the Excessive World of Nigerian Film 168

7. Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy 217

Conclusion 242

Notes 257

Bibliography 277

Index 301

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Larkin is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is a coeditor of Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain.