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The Sacred and the Cinema : Reconfiguring the "Genuinely" Religious Film /
For more than half a centurynow, scholars have debated over what comprises a genuinely religious film onethat evinces an authentic manifestation of the sacred. Often these scholarsdo so by pitting the successful films against those which propagate aninauthentic spiritual experience with the biblical...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Tackling Transcendence: An Introduction; Mediated Transcendence; Course of Study of the Sacred; Context and Caveats; Chapter 2: A History of the Sacred as a Field of Study; From "With an Other" to the "Wholly Other"; From the Oceanic to the Hierophanic; Post-Eliade; Chapter 3: A History of the Sacred and the Cinema; From Birth to Bazin; The Phenomenologists: Agel and Ayfre; Style as Substance: Schrader; Post-Film-Studies Studies of the Sacred and the Cinema; Chapter 4: The Oral Contours of the Religious Spectacular.
- Prelude to a New Theory of Film HierophanySpectacular Hierophany: What the Critics Say; Epical and Exoteric Abundance; Divine Intervention, Masala-Style; Darsan and Frontality; Chapter 5: The Alphabetically Literate Contours of the Transcendental Style; Reading, Writing, and Hierophanizing; Epistemic Streams of Time; The Ordinary as Real--and Epistemically Literate; The Still, Spare, and Silent: A Literate Metaphysics; Divine Intervention as Isolation; Chapter 6: Varieties of Hierophanic Experience; In Defense of a New Methodology; Varieties of Religiously Themed Sacredness.