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Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana
Birgit Meyer
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Description for Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana
Paperback. Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, this book examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture and society in turmoil. It also captures the process of film-making in Ghana. Series: The Anthropology of Christianity. Num Pages: 408 pages, 31 b/w. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; AFKV; HRAM2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
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 film-making 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 ... Read more
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 film-making 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
408
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
The Anthropology of Christianity
Condition
New
Weight
566g
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520287686
SKU
V9780520287686
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About Birgit Meyer
BirgitMeyer is a cultural anthropologist and Professor of Religious Studies at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She is Vice-Chair of the International African Institute and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Reviews for Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana
A thoughtful and theoretically powerful study, culminating two decades of fieldwork and movie-watching, of mediatization and materialization... An important contribution to the anthropology of religion, of popular media, of invented tradition, and of the cultural formation of the senses and experience. Anthropology Review Database A rich account... the most sustained and theoretically sophisticated treatment of Christian popular culture ... Read more