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Author Meyer, Birgit, 1960 March 21- author.

Title Sensational movies : video, vision, and Christianity in Ghana / Birgit Meyer.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 380 pages) : illustrations.
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Anthropology of Christianity ; 17
Anthropology of Christianity ; 17.
Summary "Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture and society in turmoil. This book captures the dynamic process of popular filmmaking in Ghana as a new medium for the imagination and tracks the interlacing of the medium's technological, economic, social, cultural, and religious aspects. Stepping into the void left by the defunct state film industry, video movies negotiate the imaginaries deployed by state cinema on the one hand and Christianity on the other. Birgit Meyer analyzes Ghanaian video as a powerful, sensational form. Colliding with the state film industry's representations of culture, these movies are indebted to religious notions of divination and revelation. Exploring the format of "film as revelation," Meyer unpacks the affinity between cinematic and popular Christian modes of looking and showcases the transgressive potential haunting figurations of the occult. In this brilliant study, Meyer offers a deep, conceptually innovative analysis of the role of visual culture within the politics and aesthetics of religious world making."--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-356) and index.
Contents The video film industry -- Accra, visions of the city -- Moving pictures and lived experience -- Film as revelation -- Picturing the occult -- Animation -- Mediating traditional culture.
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Subject Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Ghana.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
Ghana.
Motion pictures -- Religious aspects -- Pentacostalism.
Motion pictures -- Religious aspects.
Motion picture industry -- Ghana -- 20th century.
Motion picture industry.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Video recordings -- Social aspects -- Ghana.
Video recordings -- Social aspects.
Video recordings.
Video recordings -- Religious aspects -- Pentacostalism.
Video recordings industry -- Ghana -- 20th century.
Video recordings industry.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Video, vision, and Christianity in Ghana
Other Form: Print version: Meyer, Birgit, 1960 March 21- Sensational movies 9780520287679 (DLC) 2015026504 (OCoLC)908990160
ISBN 9780520962651 (electronic book)
0520962656 (electronic book)
9780520287679 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520287673 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520287686 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0520287681 (paperback ; alkaline paper)