Dr. Paul Ugor
Asst Professor
English
Office
Stevenson Hall - STV 421N
Office Hours
Tuesdays 12pm-2pm and by Appointment.
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- About
- Education
- Research
Current Courses
560Seminar In Literature & Culture
Research Interests & Areas
My research and teaching interests are concerned with new social processes—in global politics, economy, information and communication technologies, cultural/textual representations, and everyday life—and the new social responses which these social changes elicit, especially from amongst marginal groups like youth and women in postcolonial settings.
Ph D Anglophone African Literature
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
MA Theatre and Film Studies
University of Ibadan
Ibadan, Nigeria
BA Theatre and Media Studies
University of Calabar
Calabar, Nigeria
Book, Scholarly-New
This book addresses the theme of youth as a representative conceptual/social formation and its textualization in some early Nollywood video films. Following emerging critical developments in new media studies that transcend textual reductionism, the author discusses the subject of youth in Nollywood films, both theoretically and empirically, using socio-economic analysis to supplement representational analysis. In order to adequately problematize the conjunction between social and economic power and the visual representation of youth-related themes in Nollywood videos, the author draws on both close reading and a political-economic approach, which allows for the historicization of visual representations. This kind of interdisciplinary method allows the author to apply concepts such as uncertainties, social struggles, risks, social aspiration, belonging, agency, and other such sociological concepts specific to youth studies in the analysis of Nollywood videos.
2017-06-08T13:05:11.458-05:00
2017