Sensational Movies

BirgitMeyer is a cultural anthropologist and Professor of Religious Studies at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She is Vice-Chair of the International African Institute and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

"A thoughtful and theoretically powerful study, culminating two decades of fieldwork and movie-watching, of mediatization and materialization... An important contribution to the anthropology of religion, of popular media, of invented tradition, and of the cultural formation of the senses and experience." Anthropology Review Database "A rich account... the most sustained and theoretically sophisticated treatment of Christian popular culture in Africa to emerge to date and an important contribution to studies of religion and media." American Ethnologist "A fascinating and engaged ethnography of a crucial period in the Ghanaian film world." Marginalia "...will be regarded as both foundational and pioneering across multiple disciplines for years to come... it is how [Meyer] evaluates and hypothesizes the development of this cultural movement that places her work at the forefront of interdisciplinary research in Africa." Material Religion

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceAbbreviations Introduction 1 * The Video Film Industry 2 * Accra, Visions of the City 3 * Moving Pictures and Lived Experience4 * Film as Revelation 5 * Picturing the Occult6 * Animation 7 * Mediating Traditional Culture Epilogue Notes ReferencesFilmographyIndex