Abstract
Sensational Movies, Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana, by Birgit Meyer
Highlights
Sensational Movies, Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana traces Birgit Meyer’s historical-ethnographic study of movies in Ghana from 1985-2010
In its initial chapters Sensational Movies provides an account of the nexus at which the monopoly of state cinema was supplanted by the democratization of video technology
Post-colonial modernization has only enhanced the centrality of Accra as a crossroad of African cultures
Summary
Sensational Movies, Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana traces Birgit Meyer’s historical-ethnographic study of movies in Ghana from 1985-2010. Meyer places herself firmly in the panoply of leading researchers and theorists in the emerging field of film theory. The mastery with which Meyer zooms in to the everyday life of Ghanaian audiences and zooms out to provide context makes for an enjoyable as well as an informative read.
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