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
Main Author: Meyer, Birgit, 1960 March 21- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Series:Anthropology of Christianity ; 17.
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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.