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- Title: Yoruba Filmmakers in Search of a Language (Essay)
- Author : Abiodun A. Olayiwola
- Release Date : January 31, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 87 KB
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INTRODUCTION Critics of the nascent Nigerian film industry have repeatedly accused the indigenous movie practitioners of inability to deculturize the film language by evolving an indigenous form that reflects African cultural temperaments. For instance, Adeleke (2003:1) observes that the new bunch of filmmakers (often regarded by some critics as 'videograghers') simply imitate the emotional and sentimental Hollywood films without "acculturation of the film genre in line with African culture, exploration of African cultured resources, and delineation between technology and arts". Haynes and Okome (1997:34) accuse the Igbo and English language filmmakers of invoking Hollywood as a model, regarding this as "a betrayal of African culture in the face of the neo-colonial invasion of foreign media".