West African Screen Media Comedy, TV Series, and Transnationalization |
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| Author:
| Sawadogo, Boukary |
| Series title: | African Humanities and the Arts Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61186-311-6 |
| Publication Date: | May 2019 |
| Publisher: | Michigan State University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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The culturally rooted comic traditions of koteba theater and joking kinship have shaped West African comedies through various forms of humor.
Débrouillardise (hustle) has turned the urban scene into a comic scene, a site for individual realization. To highlight the ever-growing production and success of comedies and other popular genres,
West African Screen Media: Comedy, TV Series, and Transnationalization explores the distribution and reception of selected...
More DescriptionThe culturally rooted comic traditions of koteba theater and joking kinship have shaped West African comedies through various forms of humor. Débrouillardise (hustle) has turned the urban scene into a comic scene, a site for individual realization. To highlight the ever-growing production and success of comedies and other popular genres, West African Screen Media: Comedy, TV Series, and Transnationalization explores the distribution and reception of selected productions by emphasizing the public's strong resonance with local stories and a character-based comedy involving popular comedians. While examining production and distribution through the lenses of proximity, appropriation, and transnationalization, this volume invites readers to reconsider the way genre films, as well as other kinds of productions, have been previously evaluated and in doing so addresses the critical neglect of comedy and other popular genres in the scholarship on African cinema.