Katrien Pype
Series: Anthropology of Media
Copyright Date: 2012
Edition: 1
Published
by: Berghahn Books
Pages: 348
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qd2k2
Book 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.
eISBN: 978-0-85745-495-9
Subjects: Sociology, Anthropology