Creative Hustling
Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi
Published on 28. February 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-262-54483-2 (ISBN)
Description
"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 narrative of what it takes to succeed as a filmmaker in Nairobi. This book theorizes "hustling" as a creative practice and an innovative mode of working-one that can teach us new lessons about what it takes to produce and distribute film today, in a global age increasingly marked by flexible and precarious work"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 152 mm
Width: 230 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-54483-2 (9780262544832)
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02/2023
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Person
Robin Steedman is a Postdoc in Creative and Cultural Industries in Africa at Copenhagen Business School. Her research and previous publications focus on the creative industries in Africa, particularly on the intersection of gender and class.
Content
Introduction: Female Filmmakers at Work in Nairobi 1
1 The Making of an Industry: Filmmaking Across Local and Transnational Space 11
2 Making Transnational Cinema 33
3 Entrepreneurialism and Stylistic Internationalization on Screen 53
4 Circulation and Censorship in Nairobi: On TV and Online 69
5 Watching Film in Nairobi 89
6 Precarity, Entrepreneurialism, and Innovation in Nairobi 105
Conclusion 133
Acknowledgments 141
Notes 143
Bibliography 177
Filmography 199
Index 203
1 The Making of an Industry: Filmmaking Across Local and Transnational Space 11
2 Making Transnational Cinema 33
3 Entrepreneurialism and Stylistic Internationalization on Screen 53
4 Circulation and Censorship in Nairobi: On TV and Online 69
5 Watching Film in Nairobi 89
6 Precarity, Entrepreneurialism, and Innovation in Nairobi 105
Conclusion 133
Acknowledgments 141
Notes 143
Bibliography 177
Filmography 199
Index 203