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050 00 $aPN1993.5.G45$bM49 2015
082 00 $a302.23/4309667$223
100 1 $aMeyer, Birgit,$d1960 March 21-$eauthor.
245 10 $aSensational movies :$bvideo, vision, and Christianity in Ghana /$cBirgit Meyer.
246 1 $aVideo, vision, and Christianity in Ghana
263 $a1510
264 1 $aOakland, California :$bUniversity of California Press,$c[2015]
264 4 $c©2015
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aAnthropology of Christianity ;$v17
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe video film industry -- Accra, visions of the city -- Moving pictures and lived experience -- Film as revelation -- Picturing the occult -- Animation -- Mediating traditional culture.
520 $a"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.
650 0 $aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects$zGhana.
650 0 $aMotion pictures$xReligious aspects$xPentacostalism.
650 0 $aMotion picture industry$zGhana$y20th century.
650 0 $aVideo recordings$xSocial aspects$zGhana.
650 0 $aVideo recordings$xReligious aspects$xPentacostalism.
650 0 $aVideo recordings industry$zGhana$y20th century.
830 0 $aAnthropology of Christianity ;$v17.