Pani Nalowa Fominyen is a cinema and culture enthusiast. In her nearly two-decade long career she has taken part in several television and theatrical productions as producer, director, performer, and written a comic series. Pani is a PhD candidate and an assistant lecturer at the Performing and Visual Arts Department of the University of Buea in Cameroon.
Institution
Université De Yaoundé I
E-mail
fominyenpani@gmail.com
Téléphone
677597976
Adresse
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The Demise Of Cinema Halls In Cameroon: The Case Of Yaoundé.
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Bole Butake, University of Yaoundé 1
2010
The Demise Of Cinema Halls In Cameroon: The Case Of Yaoundé. (2010)
Cinema has the potentials of revamping a country socio-culturally and economically. Yet, despite a promising premise, the budding Cameroon film industry has been invariably ineffective. Through an epitomic case analysis of the demise of cinema film exhibition in Yaoundé, this work examines the problems faced by cinema halls in relation to the different units that comprise filmmaking. Highlighting the internal and external socio-economic complexities encountered by movie theatre owners, such as maladministration, economic instability, and technological advancements which resulted in public disenchantment and their consequent collapse.
The theoretical framework adopted to highlight the structural discrepancies of the Cameroon film industry, backed by qualitative research strategies of collecting and analyzing data was that of the structural functional model. Data was collected from interviews, books, dissertations, physical and electronic reports, articles, legal archives and direct observation of members of the film fraternity and the public. This study, therefore points to the fact that, the inaptitude of the production, distribution and exhibition levels of filmmaking encouraged the chain reaction of events that extinguished cinema halls. Hence, there is a need for a revolutionized concept of film exhibition in Cameroon; adaptable to the production, distribution and consumption dispositions of Cameroonians; in order to valorise the burgeoning Cameroon film industry.
