2009, Pierre Barrot,Nollywood: The Video Phenomenon in Nigeria, Indiana University Press,→ISBN,page23:
After the film was released, the actor Nkem Owoh became part of the 'Big Five' (ie the five most well-paid actors inNollywood).
2013, Kenneth W. Harrow,Trash: African Cinema from Below, Indiana University Press,→ISBN,page244:
Nollywood films are defined by excess, where the borders that frame the images, the sentiments, the characters—the symbolic order and its limits—are violated dramatically and systematically, as in the mannerism of the neobaroque.
2013, Matthias Krings, Onookome Okome, “Nollywood and Its Diaspora: An Introduction”, in Matthias Krings, Onookome Okome, editors,Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry, Indiana University Press,→ISBN,page19:
Video parlors, which are still the most popular outlet forNollywood film screenings across Africa, do not run African auteur films, and the film festivals of Ouagadougou, Carthage, Durban, and Zanzibar do not accept Nollywood films into their main competitions.
