Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Christianson, Eric S.
2. Francis, Peter, 1953-
3. Telford, William

Description

1. xvii, 373 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. The interdisciplinary study of theology and film requires a responsible engagement on the part of religious studies experts, biblical scholars and theologians, with film studies. Cinema Divinite first of all sets out various critical approaches to the study of film and theology such as formalism, expressionism, realism, textual analysis, contextual analysis, postmodern eclecticism, narrative criticism and cultural studies. The early chapters also look at concepts in film studies such as cinema spectatorship and the nature and application of film theory to theology. The book takes a case-study approach as it examines specific films, including The Godfather, Blade Runner, 0 Brother Where Art Thou?, specific filmmakers such as Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrik and Luis Bunuel, and finally genre, including everything from film noir to animantion and the western. The book closes with a discussion of The Passion of Christ.--From publisher's description.

Subject

1. Films
2. Motion pictures > Religious aspects
3. Religion in motion pictures
4. Theologie
5. Theorieën

Contents

1. Cinéma divinité : a theological introduction / Gerard Loughlin -- Through a lens darkly : critical approaches to theology and film / William R. Telford -- Key concepts in film studies / Brian Baker -- Shot, burned, restored : Dreyer's La passion de Jeanne d'Arc / Melanie J. Wright -- Reading Stanley Kubrick : a theological odyssey / Jeffrey F. Keuss -- Sacrilege, satire, or statement of faith? : Ways of reading Luis Buñuel's Viridiana / Tom Aitken -- An ethic you can't refuse? : Assessing the Godfather trilogy / Eric S. Christianson -- Was Judas The third man? : The lost childhood in the cinema of Graham Greene / Tom Aitken -- Artificial bodies : Blade runner and the death of man / George Aichele -- Why film noir is good for the mind / Eric S. Christianson -- Speaking of God and Donald Duck : realism, non-realism, and animation / Robert Pope -- Clint Eastwood westerns : promised land and real men / Peter Francis -- A fistful of shekels : Ehud the judge (Judges 3.12-30) and the spaghetti western / Eric S. Christianson -- The two faces of betrayal : the characterization of Peter and Judas in the biblical epic or Christ film / William R. Telford -- Re-membering the American Radical Reformation in The apostle and O Brother Where Art Thou? / Jeffrey F. Keuss -- Perversion and fulfillment : revivalist Christianity in The night of the hunter / Tom Aiken -- 'His blood be upon us, and our children' : the treatment of Jews and Judaism in the Christ film / William R. Telford -- Ritual recast and revisioned : Hollywood remembers the first Passover and the Last Supper / William R. Telford -- Table talk : reflections on Mel Gibson's The passion of the Christ.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-346) and indexes.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain