Implications of New Media Arts in Nollywood Films: An Interrogation of Selected Films
- Divine Sheriff Uchenna Joe, Ph.D
- Department of Theatre and Film Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
Nollywood has evolved overtime with several production techniques adopted by filmmakers in delivery of narratives. Notwithstanding, the question of quality still hangs over the industry. This has spurred the inclusion of new media arts by industry practitioners to align with global best standards. This paper is interested in understanding the implication of marriage between the film industry and new media arts. It thus analyses four select films – Nneka the Pretty Serpent, Last Flight to Abuja, Half of a Yellow Sun, The Calabash, Idemili – for the study. Situated within the Narrative Theory advanced by Tzvetan Todorov, it adopts an eclectic approach that incorporates content and case reference analysis as its research method. It concludes that new media arts inclusion has spurred possible emergence of auteurs, widening of the scope of source materials of film stories, comprehensive re-enactment of historical events as well as contributing to the debate on the verisimilitude of magical realism in Nollywood films.