ISBN:
9780520287686
,
9780520287679
,
0520287673
,
0520287681
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 380 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Anthropology of Christianity 17
Series Statement:
The anthropology of Christianity
DDC:
302.23/4309667
Keywords:
Motion pictures Social aspects
;
Motion pictures Religious aspects
;
Pentacostalism
;
Motion picture industry 20th century
;
Video recordings Social aspects
;
Video recordings Religious aspects
;
Pentacostalism
;
Video recordings industry 20th century
;
Ghana
;
Ghana
;
Filmtheorie
;
Filmwissenschaft
;
Filmwirtschaft
;
Videotechnik
;
Video
;
Videoproduktion
;
Filmförderung
;
Religiöses Leben
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Videobearbeitung
;
Pfingstbewegung
;
Sozialer Prozess
Abstract:
"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
Abstract:
"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
Description / Table of Contents:
The video film industryAccra, visions of the city -- Moving pictures and lived experience -- Film as revelation -- Picturing the occult -- Animation -- Mediating traditional culture.
Note:
Literaturverz. S. 333-356
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