Marginal Revolution: Markets in everything -- Nollywood films over the Internet

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Markets in everything -- Nollywood films over the Internet

3000 Nigerian films, rentable in the United States (only), using the Netflix model. You can learn more about Nollywood here. Recommendations are welcome if you have them...

Posted by Tyler Cowen on July 6, 2006 at 06:45 AM in Film | Permalink

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3,000 how-to films (everything from dog-grooming to kayak building to sailing to woodworking to training for strongman events), rentable in the US and Canada, here

Posted by: TJIC at Jul 6, 2006 8:43:01 AM

Cinematic "overpopulation" is a problem here...but one can go with names (of directors and actors): Something with Zeb or Chico Ejiro should be good, Tade Ogidan and Tunde Kelani are good names, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Richard Mofe Damijo,Jide Kosoko, Lanre Hassan, Bob Manuel Udokwu,Genevieve Nnaji, Regina Askia, Liz Benson - though I suspect that with the pace of that industry, some of the names on this list will be regarded as dated.
Since many of the movies are set in Lagos, this paper
http://www.nyu.edu/africahouse/expressive/okiomeanxiouscity.pdf
is of some help.

Posted by: Chuckles at Jul 6, 2006 12:57:19 PM

A few years ago, I rented numerous (i.e., at least 8) Nigerian videos from a small grocery store. Many of these films had a "horror" vibe wherein the practice of indenginous, tribal religions would unleash all sorts of havoc on practitioners and their families. The ultimate solution usually involved Christian intevention. Most of what I saw was not all that interesting. The dramatic films I watched were equally didactic and pedestrian.

If someone has a list of what is considered the "best of class," I would like to see it. I did not have much luck my own.

Posted by: Rodney at Jul 7, 2006 12:46:04 AM

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