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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Meyer, Birgit (1960-....)
Titre(s) : Sensational movies [Texte imprimé] : video, vision, and Christianity in Ghana / Birgit Meyer
Publication : Oakland, Calif. : University of California press, ©2015
Description matérielle : xix, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : Anthropology of Christianity ; 17
Lien à la collection : The Anthropology of Christianity
Comprend : The video film industry ; Accra, visions of the city ; Moving pictures and lived
experience ; Film as revelation ; Picturing the occult ; Animation ; Mediating
traditional culture.
Note(s) : Filmography: pages 357-360. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-356)
and index
"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
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Video, vision, and Christianity in Ghana
Sujet(s) : Vidéo -- Production et réalisation -- Ghana -- 1990-2020
Vidéos -- Société -- Ghana
Cinéma -- Religion
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.436 823 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Thèmes et concepts religieux - Christianisme
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520287679. - ISBN 0520287673. - ISBN 9780520287686. - ISBN 0520287681. -
ISBN 9780520962651 (erroné). - ISBN 0520962656 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45034914x
Notice n° :
FRBNF45034914
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