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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. Sensational Movies captures the dynamic process of popular film making in Ghana as a new medium for the imagination, tracking the interlacing of its 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 representation of a 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. What's more, Meyer offers a deep, conceptually innovative analysis of the role of visual culture within the politics and aesthetics of religious world-making.

Book details

Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: Sensational Movies
• Subtitle: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana
• Author: Birgit Meyer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408
• EAN: 9780520287686
• ISBN: 0520287681
• ID: 09310872
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 572 g
• Dimensions: 153 × 229 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. October 2015

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