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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2012.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 spectacular serving as theirmost notorious candidate. This book argues that whatmakes a filmic manifestation of the sacred true or authentic, may say moreabout a spectator or critics particular way of knowing, as influenced byalphabetic literacy, than it does about the aesthetic or philosophical an. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-187) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441147929 1441147926 9781441161703 1441161708 1280581085 9781280581083 9786613610867 6613610860 |