Auteuring Nollywood. Critical Perspectives on The Figurine

Beginning from an auteur standpoint this book interrogates extant cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigerian postcolonial realities in Nollywood. It makes a case using Kunle Afolayan's The Figurine for a critical space-clearing gesture around the notion of a neo-Nollywood which transcends the formulaic cinematic re-presentation of African and Nigeriam realities to embrace a visionary and philosophic rearticualtion of the role of filmmaking and of Nollywood in the Nigerian imagination. The Idea of neo-Nollywood and a visionary director therefore stands at the core of a cinematic production process that challenges disturbs and stimulates perceptions of current and future African identities.