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Title: Sensational Movies
Condition: New
Subtitle: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana
Author: Birgit Meyer
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0520287681
EAN: 9780520287686
ISBN: 9780520287686
Publisher: University of California Press
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Social Sciences, Arts & Photography, Society & Culture
Release Date: 10/16/2015
Description: 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 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 25mm
Item Weight: 590g
Series: Anthropology of Christianity
Release Year: 2015

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