03450cam a2200661Ma 4500 ocn807035233 OCoLC 20200709055556.0 m d cr |n| 111222s2012 nyu o 000 0 eng d CDX CDX OCLCO E7B EBLCP YDXCP MHW N$T 804662542 9780857454959 (electronic bk.) 0857454951 (electronic bk.) 0857454943 9780857454942 0857454951 9786613814876 (OCoLC)807035233 (OCoLC)804662542 476709 (N$T) 381487 MIL f-cg--- GN654 .P97 2012eb PER 010040 bisacsh 791.45096751/12 23 N$TA Pype, Katrien. The making of the Pentecostal melodrama [electronic resource] : religion, media and gender in Kinshasa / Katrien Pype. New York : Berghahn Books, c2012. 1206 1 online resource (p. cm.) Anthropology of Media Description based on print version record. Illustrations; Acknowledgments; On Language; Chapter 1 -- The First Episode; Chapter 2 -- Cursing the City: The Ethnographic Field and the Pentecostal Imagination; Chapter 3 -- New Fathers and New Names: Social Dynamics in an Evangelizing Acting Group; Chapter 4 -- Variations on Divine Afflatus: Artistic Inspiration, Special Effects, and Sermons; Chapter 5 -- Mimesis in Motion: Embodied Experiences of Performers and Spectators; Chapter 6 -- The Right Road: Moral Movements, Confessions, and the Christian Subject 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. Motion pictures in ethnology Congo (Democratic Republic) Kinshasa. Video recording in ethnology Congo (Democratic Republic) Kinshasa. Anthropology of religion Congo (Democratic Republic) Kinshasa. Pentecostal churches Congo (Democratic Republic) Kinshasa. Television in religion Congo (Democratic Republic) Kinshasa. Kinshasa (Congo) Religious life and customs. Kinshasa (Congo) Social condtions. Kinshasa (Congo) Politics and government. PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Reference bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: (DLC)2011052126 9786613814876 Anthropology of media. http://lib.myilibrary.com?id=381487 http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=982086 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=476709 Coutts Information Services COUT 23099584 ebrary EBRY ebr10583751 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL982086 YBP Library Services YANK 7552460 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 51536 51536