The Religious Film
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Author |
: S. Brent Plate |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2017-09-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231545792 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231545797 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion and Film by : S. Brent Plate
Religion and cinema share a capacity for world making, ritualizing, mythologizing, and creating sacred time and space. Through cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing, and other production activities, film takes the world “out there” and refashions it. Religion achieves similar ends by setting apart particular objects and periods of time, telling stories, and gathering people together for communal actions and concentrated focus. The result of both cinema and religious practice is a re-created world: a world of fantasy, a world of ideology, a world we long to live in, or a world we wish to avoid at all costs. Religion and Film introduces readers to both religious studies and film studies by focusing on the formal similarities between cinema and religious practices and on the ways they each re-create the world. Explorations of film show how the cinematic experience relies on similar aesthetic devices on which religious rituals have long relied: sight, sound, the taste of food, the body, and communal experience. Meanwhile, a deeper understanding of the aesthetic nature of religious rituals can alter our understanding of film production. Utilizing terminology and theoretical insights from the study of religion as well as the study of film, Religion and Film shows that by paying attention to the ways films are constructed, we can shed new light on the ways religious myths and rituals are constructed and vice versa. This thoroughly revised and expanded new edition is designed to appeal to the needs of courses in religion as well as film departments. In addition to two new chapters, this edition has been restructured into three distinct sections that offer students and instructors theories and methods for thinking about cinema in ways that more fully connect film studies with religious studies.
Author |
: Christopher Deacy |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015061188606 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Faith in Film by : Christopher Deacy
From the unprecendented and innovative perspective of Christian theology, this book investigates how cinema audiences wrestle with their religious beliefs and values. Deacy reveals that movies raise vital questions about the spiritual landscape and normative values of western society today.
Author |
: John R. May |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1556127618 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781556127618 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis New Image of Religious Film by : John R. May
Contributors from richly diverse backgrounds explore a wide range of current issues concerning the interrelationship of religion and film.
Author |
: John Lyden |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 518 |
Release |
: 2009-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135220662 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135220662 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film by : John Lyden
The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film brings together a lively and experienced team of contributors to investigate the ways in which this exciting discipline is developing.
Author |
: Peter Malone |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2007-04-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781461718789 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1461718783 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Through a Catholic Lens by : Peter Malone
Movies are often examined for subtext and dramatizations of social and psychological issues as well as current movements. Studies of well-known Catholic directors, such as Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford, have made the search for Catholic themes a reputable field of examination. Through a Catholic Lens continues the search for these themes and examines the Catholic undercurrents by studying nineteen film directors from around the world. Although these directors may or may not be practicing Catholics, their Catholic background can be found in their writing and directing. Each chapter, written by a different contributor, analyzes one film of each director for its Catholic motifs. With the recent increase of cinema studies, this collection will be of interest to students and academics as well as cinema buffs.
Author |
: Anker, Roy M. |
Publisher |
: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802873699 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802873693 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beautiful Light by : Anker, Roy M.
Though "religious" films usually don't get much respect in Hollywood, religion still regularly finds its way into the movies. In Beautiful Light Roy Anker seeks out the often unnoticed connections between film and religion and shows how even films that aren't overtly religious or Christian in their content can be filled with deep religious insights and spiritual meaning. Closely examining nine critically acclaimed films, including Magnolia, The Apostle, American Gigolo, and M. Night Shyamalan's Wide Awake, Anker analyzes the ways in which these movies explore what it means to be human--and what it means, as human beings, to wrestle with a sometimes unwieldy divine presence. Addressing questions of doubt and belief, despair and elation, hatred and love, Anker's work sheds "beautiful light" on some of Hollywood's most profound and memorable films.
Author |
: Wendy I. Zierler |
Publisher |
: Suny Press |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2018-01-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1438466145 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781438466149 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Movies and Midrash by : Wendy I. Zierler
Brings popular cinema and Jewish religious texts into a meaningful dialogue.
Author |
: Craig Detweiler |
Publisher |
: Baker Academic |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2008-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801035920 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801035929 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Into the Dark by : Craig Detweiler
A Hollywood screenwriter/producer and film professor explores forty-five of the twenty-first century's most popular films as vehicles of common grace.
Author |
: Pamela Grace |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2009-05-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1444310542 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781444310542 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Religious Film by : Pamela Grace
From The Gospel According to Matthew to Jesus ChristSuperstar, from The Passion of Joan of Arc to TheLast Temptation of Christ and Jesus of Montreal, TheReligious Film captures the glory, gore, and centrality of thisimportant genre. A short, accessible introduction to religious film, exploringthe genre as spectacle, as musical, and as controversy Examines the historical, cultural and critical background forreligious films from the silent era through to the presentday Introduces the complexities and characteristics of this iconicgenre of film, including common sounds and images, and the valuesthat most traditional films of this kind uphold
Author |
: Robert K. Johnston |
Publisher |
: Baker Academic |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2006-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801031878 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801031877 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reel Spirituality by : Robert K. Johnston
A comprehensive study of theology and film that explores how the Christian faith is portrayed in film throughout history.