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THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF NOLLYWOOD STUDIES - Jonathan Haynes. Nollywood: The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xxvii + 375 pp. Acknowledgments. Preface. Notes. Filmography. Bibliography. Index of Names. Index of Subjects. $35.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780226387956. - Elizabeth Johnson and Donald Culverson. Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2016. xi + 167 pp. Foreword. Appendixes. References. Index. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9781498524742. - Noah A. Tsika. Nollywood Stars: Media and Migration in West Africa and the Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. xxvii + 348 pp. Preface and Acknowledgments. Notes. Bibliography. Filmography. Index. $32.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780253015754.

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