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Documentary as Exorcism

Resisting the Bewitchment of Colonial Christianity [Hardback]

by Robert Beckford

    • Author

      Robert Beckford

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    • Published

      January 2014

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    Product Description

    Robert Beckford is at the forefront of challenging documentary film making. For the first time he reflects on his art, and how he navigates between theology and visual culture as an academic, activist and practitioner. Starting from a clarification of his cultural viewpoint, as someone living in-between various camps, he moves on to review recent developments in documentary theory, in particular the need to engage and challenge audiences rather than simply transmit actuality. Beckford frames colonial theology in the Caribbean as a form of witchcraft practice that bewitched Africans and later black colonial subjects, and discusses the continued impact of this bewitchment, namely in politics and anti-intellectualism in contemporary Black Pentecostal Church life, especially in the UK. He explores the concept of Biblical exorcism, particularly as anticolonialism and transcodes this practice into visual culture (film, art, etc.) analysing his own high-profile documentaries, "Black Messiah", "God is Black", "Empire Pays Back" and "The Great African Scandal", in terms of the expulsion of the occult.

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    • Author

      Robert Beckford

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    • Published

      January 2014

    • Weight

      409g

    • Page Count

      264

    • Dimensions

      140 x 216 x 17 mm

    • ISBN

      9781847063915

    • ISBN-10

      1847063918

    • Eden Code

      4031631

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    • Author/Creator: Robert Beckford

    • ISBN: 9781847063915

    • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    • Release Date: January 2014

    • Weight: 409g

    • Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 17 mm

    • Eden Code: 4031631

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