Intersections: Pirates Meet Professionals

Crisp, Virginia

doi:10.1057/9781137406613_8

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“…Some patterns of informal and communal practices extend into the streaming space. Globally, online piracy and filesharing remain a key component of the connected viewing culture of streaming (Crisp, 2015; Holt and Sanson, 2014). In Nigeria, they are reminiscent of the house-to-house, friend-to-friend video-sharing practices of the VCD system.…”

Section: Pocket Video: Fragmented Audiences and Individualised Viewingmentioning

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‘They are now pocket videos, not home videos’: Streaming and reconfiguration of video consumption in Nigeria

Simon

2023

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article examines how streaming is altering established viewing practices that traditionally characterised video film consumption among domestic Nigerians. Following the creation of the Nigerian video industry (Nollywood) as a straight-to-video film industry, audiences watched movies solely through the technologies of television sets and video players. The fluid and opaque circulation of video copies located audience consumption practices within informal realms and communal spaces. This article analyses how streaming is catalysing a distinctive viewing culture in Nigeria. It argues that streaming is formalising access to Nollywood movies, upending the communal practices associated with legacy video viewing, and fostering an individualised viewing culture though some informal communal practices persist in the streaming ecosystem. By emphasising the role of smartphones and apps in the emergent streaming culture, this article demonstrates how streaming is restructuring the temporal, spatial, and affective features of audience engagements that traditionally characterised movies viewing in Nigeria.

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Section: Pocket Video: Fragmented Audiences and Individualised Viewingmentioning

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‘They are now pocket videos, not home videos’: Streaming and reconfiguration of video consumption in Nigeria

Simon

2023

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…In these contexts, otherwise known as precarious geographies, informal economic practices are understood as the norm rather than exception (Waite, 2009). Over the years, the concept of informal economy has become increasingly associated with cultural industries as both formal and informal practices often interrelate to sustain industrial activities (Crisp, 2015; Cunningham, 2012; Lobato and Thomas, 2015; Lobato et al, 2011). Despite their disconnection from official zones, informal activities are often required to keep things running smoothly in media industries.…”

Section: Precarity Informal Social Relations and Hope In Creative Lab...mentioning

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Producing Nollywood portal films: Navigating precarity through informal social relations and hope

Simon

2022

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article examines the production practices that underpin the production of portal films in the Nigerian video film industry (Nollywood). Following the recent surge in the number of streaming portals focusing on the distribution of Nollywood films, a nascent video on demand (VOD) market has been created. This new market has given rise to a crop of filmmakers who now produce straight-to-portal films. This article draws on semi-structured interviews with 30 industry stakeholders comprising producers, directors, writers, and streaming executives. Adopting a critical media industry studies approach, I argue that, in the face of pervasive precarity in the Nollywood VOD market, portal filmmakers adopt informal social relations and ‘hope labour’ in navigating productions and ensuring the market is sustained. The article contributes to extant research on Nollywood's production dynamics and extends existing debates about precarity in cultural industries through a less-studied context like Nollywood.

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Film Distribution in Film Studies

Lim

2018

Philippine Cinema and the Cultural Economy of Distribution

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Intersections: Pirates Meet Professionals

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‘They are now pocket videos, not home videos’: Streaming and reconfiguration of video consumption in Nigeria

‘They are now pocket videos, not home videos’: Streaming and reconfiguration of video consumption in Nigeria

Producing Nollywood portal films: Navigating precarity through informal social relations and hope

Film Distribution in Film Studies

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