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Table of Contents:

• 1. Infrastructure, the Colonial Sublime, and Indirect Rule
• 2. Unstable Objects: The Making of Radio in Nigeria
• 3. Majigi, Colonial Film, State Publicity, and the Political Form of Cinema
• 4. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema
• 5. Immaterial Urbanism and the Cinematic Event
• 6. Extravagant Aesthetics: Instability and the Excessive World of Nigerian Film
• 7. Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy.

Author/Creator:

Larkin, Brian

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Signal and noise: media, infrastructure, and urban culture in Nigeria [by Larkin, B.]

Subjects:

Mass media and technology — Nigeria — History

Mass media and culture — Nigeria — History

Nigeria — Civilization — 20th century

1900-1999

Mass media and culture

Civilization

Mass media and technology

Nigeria

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-299) and index.

Physical Description:

xi, 313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Call Numbers:

P96.T422 N65 2008

ISBNs:

9780822340904 (cloth, alk. paper)
0822340909 (cloth, alk. paper)
9780822341086 (pbk., alk. paper)
0822341085 (pbk., alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2007043854

OCLC Numbers:

179103773