Sensational movies : video, vision, and Christianity in Ghana /

"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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Meyer, Birgit, 1960 March 21- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Series:Anthropology of Christianity ; 17.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Motion pictures > Social aspects > Ghana.
Motion pictures > Religious aspects > Pentacostalism.
Motion picture industry > Ghana > 20th century.
Video recordings > Social aspects > Ghana.
Video recordings > Religious aspects > Pentacostalism.
Video recordings industry > Ghana > 20th century.
Cinéma > Aspect social > Ghāna.
Cinéma > Industrie > Ghāna > 20e siècle.
Vidéos > Aspect social > Ghāna.
Vidéo > Industrie > Ghāna > 20e siècle.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Motion picture industry
Motion pictures > Social aspects
Video recordings industry
Video recordings > Social aspects
Ghana
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The video film industry
  • Accra, visions of the city
  • Moving pictures and lived experience
  • Film as revelation
  • Picturing the occult
  • Animation
  • Mediating traditional culture.

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