2020
DOI: 10.1177/2158244020940994
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The New Nollywood: Professionalization or Gentrification of Cultural Industry

Abstract: Nollywood is further gaining popularity due to its transformations, which bear resemblances to the processes of gentrification and professionalization. This is formalizing the industry as well as attracting professionals and instigating existing filmmakers to improve on their art. So far, filmmakers have continued to avail themselves for further trainings, aligning themselves with the emerging new and professionalizing Nollywood. This study is interested in finding out whether these changes within the… Show more

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“…In summary, Ezepue (2020) concludes that the professionalisation of practice within the Nigerian film industry justified the metaphorical gentrification of Nollywood, transforming it from a once-not-soappealing sector into a highly sought-after by all social classes.…”
Section: A Nollywood As An Industry: An Empirical Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In summary, Ezepue (2020) concludes that the professionalisation of practice within the Nigerian film industry justified the metaphorical gentrification of Nollywood, transforming it from a once-not-soappealing sector into a highly sought-after by all social classes.…”
Section: A Nollywood As An Industry: An Empirical Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…According to [6], Nollywood is gaining popularity due to its transformations, which bear resemblances to the processes of gentrification and professionalization. This is formalizing the industry as well as attracting professionals and instigating existing filmmakers to improve on their art.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The author captures existing sentiments that Nollywood is a work in progress, but believes that this work will only be productive if filmmakers professionalize their art. Other authors like Jedlowski (2013), Haynes (2014), Igwe (2018), Ezepue (2020), among others, have gone ahead to discuss transformations within the industry and among the filmmakers as well as their films. These authors indicate that a new crop of filmmakers are beginning to reshape the industry, leading to the new Nollywood economic model which has created more controversies among industry players than conversations among industry scholars (Ekwuazi, 2020; Haynes, 2014).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%