Religion and film : cinema and the re-creation of the world /

"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 device...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Plate, S. Brent, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Edición:Second edition.
Temas:
Motion pictures > Religious aspects.
Religion in motion pictures.
Religious films > History and criticism.
Religion and literature.
Cinéma > Aspect religieux.
Religion au cinéma.
Films religieux > Histoire et critique.
Religion et littérature.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Religious films.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Worldmaking on-screen and at the altar
  • Part I. Before the show: pulling the curtain on the wizard. Audio-visual mythologizing
  • Ritualizing film in space and time
  • Sacred and cinematic spaces: cities and pilgrimages
  • Part II. During the show: attractions and distractions. Religious cinematics: body, screen, and death
  • The face, the close-up, and ethics
  • Part III. After the show: re-created realities. The footprints of film: cinematic after-images in sacred time and space.

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