African Media in an Age of Extraction: Nollywood Geographies (Film Culture in Transition)

African Media in an Age of Extraction takes a fresh, site-specific look at the relationship between moving images and the mining of natural resources, arguing that where we “place” Nollywood and other industries has important practical and conceptual consequences.Such locations are not just spatial metaphors but also tangible geographies with material connections to extractive economies.Sites of film production are often spaces of oil prospecting, timber harvesting, and mineral extraction-natural environments continuously transformed by capital.African Media in an Age of Extraction links such absolute spaces-reclaimed lands, razed forests, petroleum zones, abandoned coal mines collecting moss, vast tin fields inspiring illegal dredging by populations locked out of the licit economy-to the abstract and lived dimensions of film villages, shooting locations, and exhibition centers.The geographies of African media industries are not fixed locations cleanly separated from surrounding areas