| The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa Contributor(s): Pype, Katrien (Author) |
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ISBN: 0857454943 ISBN-13: 9780857454942 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $137.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Television - General - Social Science | Media Studies - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion |
| Dewey: 791.450 |
| LCCN: 2011052126 |
| Series: Anthropology of the Media |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.40 lbs) 348 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, conversion narratives, Christian songs, sermons, testimonies, and deliverance rituals to produce commentaries on what it means to be an inhabitant of Kinshasa. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pype, Katrien: - Katrien Pype is Assistant Professor at University of Leuven and a Fellow with the Department of African Studies & Anthropology at University of Birmingham. She is co-initiator, with Miles Larmer and Rueben Loffman, of Congo Research Network, a platform that aims at enhancing dialogue and collaboration among Congo researchers in the humanities and social sciences. |