Creative hustling : women making and distributing films from Nairobi

Creative hustling : women making and distributing films from Nairobi / Robin Steedman.

"Creative Hustling is the first book length study about Nairobi-based female filmmakers and their labor as artists and entrepreneurs. Based on original empirical research, Steedman explores how these women pair their cinematic ability with an equally apt business acumen, contributing to a narra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steedman, Robin (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
Series:Distribution matters.
Subjects:
Women motion picture producers and directors > Kenya > Nairobi.
Motion picture producers and directors > Kenya > Nairobi.
Women in the motion picture industry > Kenya > Nairobi.
Motion pictures > Kenya > Nairobi > Distribution.
Motion picture producers and directors
Motion pictures > Distribution
Women in the motion picture industry
Women motion picture producers and directors
Kenya > Nairobi
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Female Filmmakers at Work in Nairobi
  • The Makings of an Industry: Filmmaking between the Local and the Transnational
  • Making Transnational Cinema
  • Entrepreneurialism and Stylistic Internationalization on Screen
  • Circulation and Censorship in Nairobi: On TV and Online
  • Watching Film in Nairobi
  • Precarity, Entrepreneurialism, and Innovation in Nairobi
  • Conclusion

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