Nollywood Women: New Perspectives on Cultural Entrepreneurship and Social Impact
Wednesday, 2024/11/06, 18:15
This lecture will take place in the Dampfzentrale in cooperation with the festival «Tanz in Bern».
| Event organizer: | Collegium generale |
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| Speaker: | Prof. Dr. Añulika Agina, Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria |
| Date: | 2024/11/06 |
| Time: | 18:15 - 19:45 |
| Locality: |
In cooperation with «Tanz in Bern» Dampfzentrale Marzilistrasse 47 3005 Bern |
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| Characteristics: |
open to the public free of charge |
Abstract
From major news headlines to highest box office records, Nigerian women filmmakers are challenging male dominance and breaking stereotypes in dynamic ways. This lecture builds on the speaker's engagements with women filmmakers to interrogate the growing forms of cultural enterpreneurship within Nollywood beyond existing notions of business strategies and feminist film production. What forms of agency, social critique and impact are permissible and evident in/through the films produced and directed by women and why? The lecture will analyse the film industry through the specific texts of two women filmmakers, Bolanle Austen-Peters and Funke Akindele, to demonstrate major shifts in the stereotypical roles of women behind and in front of the camera.
This lecture takes place in cooperation with the festival «Tanz in Bern» in the Dampfzentrale, Marzilistrasse 47, Bern.