Film Production in Nigeria: A Historical Perspective
Keywords:
Nollywood, home movies, film, soap operas and sitcoms
Abstract
This paper examined the history of film production in Nigeria, focusing on home movies, soap operas and sitcoms. The Nigerian home movie industry, popularly known as Nollywood, was an adaptation from popular movie industries from the western world like Hollywood, Bollywood, etc. The history of the film industry in Nigeria transcended from the colonial era to the current Nollywood. However, prior to Living in Bondage – the first home movie in Nigeria – there had existed many soap operas and sitcoms on Nigerian screens as well as cinemas. Some of them include New Masquerade, Checkmate, Things Fall Apart, The Village Headmaster, Icheoku, Basi and Company, etc. Currently on the Nigerian screen, there are My Flatmates, The Johnsons, etc.
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3. Brown, M.E. (199 4). Soap opera and women's talk: The pleasure of resistance. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
4. Brown, M.E. (1990). Television and women's culture: The politics of the popular. Newberry Park, CA: Sage.
5. Buckman, P. (1984). All for love. London: Secker & Warburg.
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8. Hagedorn, R. (1995). Doubtless to be continued: A brief history 40 of serial narrative. In R.C. Allen (Ed.). To be continued: Soap operas around the world (pp. 27-48). New York: Routledge.
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10. Mumford, L.S. (1995). Ideology in the afternoon: Soap opera, women, and television genre. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University.
11. Okon, P. (2019). History of films in Nigeria. Retrieved from https://infoguidenigeria.com/history-films-nigeria/
12. Oparaugo, B. (2021). Introduction to mass communication, media and culture. e-Book: Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.
13. Sidomex Universal (2018). The evolution of filmmaking in Nigeria. Retrieved fromhttps://sidomexuniversal.medium.com/the-evolution-of-filmmaking-in-nigeria-18f29d453c15
14. Ugobude, F. (2021, September 12). The evolution of the Nigerian film industry. The Guardian, https://guardian.ng/life/the-evolution-of-the-nigerian-film-industry/
Published
2021-10-22
How to Cite
Oparaugo, B. (2021). Film Production in Nigeria: A Historical Perspective. Central Asian Journal of Social Sciences and History, 2(10), 87-95. Retrieved from https://cajssh.centralasianstudies.org/index.php/CAJSSH/article/view/185
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