Visions of blood, sex and money: Fantasy spaces in popular Ghanaian Cinema

Visual Anthropology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-41

  Meyer, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442503577     PISSN: 08949468     EISSN: 15455920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08949460309595097     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Modernity at Large. Cultural Dimensions of Globalization., Minneapolis and London University of Minnesota Press.
2. Barber, Karen. 1997. Readings in African Popular Culture., Oxford: James Currey. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
3. Barthes, Roland. 1957. Mythologies., Paris: Éditions du Seuil.
4. Benjamin, Walter. 1977. Illuminationen. Ausgewählte Schriften., Frankfurt-am-Main: Suhrkamp.
5. Burnett, Ron. 1995. Cultures of Vision. Images, Media & the Imaginary., Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
6. Campbell, Colin. 1987. The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism., Oxford: Basil, Blackwell.
7. Castoriadis, Cornelius. 1994. “ Radical Imagination and the Social Instituting Imaginary ”. In Rethinking Imagination. Culture and Creativity., Edited by: Robinson, G., and Rundell, J., 87–117. London: Routledge. and New York
8. Comaroff, Jean, and John, Comaroff. 1999. Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction: Notes From the South African Postcolony. American Ethnologist, 26 (2): 279–303.
9. Derné, Steve. 1995. “ Market Forces at Work: Religious Themes in Commercial Hindi Films ”. In Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia., Edited by: Lawrence, A. Babb, and Susan, S. Wadley. 191–216. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
10. Drewal, Henry John. 1988. Performing the Other. Mami Wata Worship in Africa. The Drama Review, 32 (2): 160–185.
11. Drewal, Henry John 1995 Draft of the National Film and Video Policy for Ghana. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. Guide Notes on the Censorship of Films. Flyer produced by the Censorship Board.
12. Haynes, Jonathan. 1995. Nigerian Cinema: Structural Adjustments. Research in African Literatures, 26 (3): 97–117.
13. Haynes, Jonathan. 2000. Nigerian Video Films., Athens, Ohio: University Center for International Studies.
14. Larkin, Brian. 1997. Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities. Africa, 67 (3): 406–440.
15. Meyer, Birgit. 1995. “Delivered from the Powers of Darkness.” Confessions about Satanic Riches in Christian Ghana. Africa, 65 (2): 236–255.
16. Meyer, Birgit. 1998a. “Make a Complete Break with the Past.” Memory and Post-colonial Modernity in Ghanaian Pentecostalist Discourse. Journal of Religion in Africa, 28 (3): 316–349.
17. Meyer, Birgit. 1998b. The Power of Money. Politics, Sorcery and Pentecostalism in Ghana. African Studies Review, 41 (3): 15–38.
18. Meyer, Birgit. 1999a. Popular Ghanaian Cinema and “African Heritage.”. Africa Today, 46 (2): 93–114.
19. Meyer, Birgit. 1999b. “ Commodities and the Power of Prayer. Pentecostalist Attitudes Towards Consumption in Contemporary Ghana ”. In Globalization and Identity., Edited by: Birgit, Meyer, and Peter, Geschiere. 151–176. Oxford: Blackwell.
20. Meyer, Birgit. 1999c. Translating the Devil. Religion and Modernity among the Ewe in Ghana., Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. IAL-Series.
21. Meyer, Birgit. 2001. Money, Power and Morality. Popular Ghanaian Cinema in the Fourth Republic. Ghana Studies, 40: 65–84.
22. Sanchez, Rafael. 2001. “ Channel-Surfing: Media, Mediumship, and State Authority in the María Lionza Possession Cult (Venezuela) ”. In Religion and Media., Edited by: Hent, de Vries, and Samuel, Weber. 388–434. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
23. Sontag, Susan. 1977. On Photography., New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.
24. Spyer, Patricia. 1997. The Eroticism of Debt: Pearl Divers, Traders, and Sea Wives in the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia. American Ethnologist, 24 (3): 515–538.
25. Spyer, Patricia. 1998. Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces., New York: Routledge. and London
26. Taussig, Michael T., 1995. The Sun Gives Without Receiving: An Old Story. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 37 (2): 368–398.
27. Thoden van Velzen, H.U.E., 1995. Revenants that Cannot be Shaken: Collective Fantasies in a Maroon Society. American Anthropologist, 97 (4): 722–732.
28. Verrips, Jojada. 1998. Enige speculaties en reflecties over magie, wetenschap en glas. Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift, 25 (1): 153–155.
29. Weber, Max. 1985. Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Grundrisse der verstehenden Soziologie., Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr. [1922]
30. Wendl, Tobias. 1991. Mami Wata oder ein Kult zwischen den Kulturen., Münster: Lit Verlag.
31. Wendl, Tobias. 2001. Visions of Modernity in Ghana: Mami Wata Shrines, Photo Studios and Horror Films. Visual Anthropology, 14: 269–292.
32. Williams, Rosalind. 1990. Notes on the Underground. An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination., Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press.
33. Žižek, Slavoj. 1996. Fantasy as a Political Category: A Lacanian Approach. Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, 1 (2): 77–86.