Sensational movies : video, vision, and Christianity in Ghana

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Label

Sensational movies : video, vision, and Christianity in Ghana

Title remainder

video, vision, and Christianity in Ghana

Statement of responsibility

Birgit Meyer

Title variation

Video, vision, and Christianity in Ghana

Creator

• Meyer, Birgit, 1960 March 21-

Author

• Meyer, Birgit, 1960 March 21-

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Video recordings -- Social aspects
• Video recordings industry -- Ghana -- 20th century
• Motion pictures -- Religious aspects | Pentacostalism
• Ghana
• Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Ghana
• Video recordings industry
• Video recordings -- Social aspects -- Ghana
• Motion picture industry
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
• Video recordings -- Religious aspects | Pentacostalism
• PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology
• Motion picture industry -- Ghana -- 20th century
• Motion pictures -- Social aspects

Language

eng

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

Member of

• Anthropology of Christianity, 17

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

302.23/4309667

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PN1993.5.G45

LC item number

M49 2015eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Anthropology of Christianity

Series volume

17