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Arthur, Tori O.

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The reimagined paradise: African immigrants in the United States, Nollywood film, and the digital remediation of 'home'.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The reimagined paradise: African immigrants in the United States, Nollywood film, and the digital remediation of 'home'./
Author:	Arthur, Tori O.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	286 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-02A(E).
Subject:	Mass communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10146303
ISBN:	9781369016642

The reimagined paradise: African immigrants in the United States, Nollywood film, and the digital remediation of 'home'.
Arthur, Tori O.

The reimagined paradise: African immigrants in the United States, Nollywood film, and the digital remediation of 'home'. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 286 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Bowling Green State University, 2016.

This dissertation analyzes how African immigrants from nations south of the Sahara become affective citizens of a universal Africa through the consumption of Nigerian cinema, known as Nollywood, in digital spaces. Employing a phenomenological approach to examine lived experience, this study explores: 1) how American media aids African pre-migrants in constructing the United States as a paradise rooted in the American Dream; 2) immigrants' responses when the 'imagined paradise' does not match their American realities; 3) the ways Nigerian films articulate a distinctly African cultural experience that enables immigrants from various nations to identify with the stories reflected on screen; and, 4) how viewing Nollywood films in social media platforms creates a digital sub-diaspora that enables a reconnection with African culture when life in the United States causes intellectual and emotional dissonance.

ISBN: 9781369016642Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144804
Mass communication.

The reimagined paradise: African immigrants in the United States, Nollywood film, and the digital remediation of 'home'.
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