Art Cinema and Theology
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Art Cinema and Theology

The Word Was Made Film

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Art Cinema and Theology

The Word Was Made Film

About this book

This book examines postmodern theology and how it relates to the cinematic style of Robert Bresson, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman, and Luis Buñuel. Ponder demonstrates how these filmmakers forefront religious issues in their use of mise en scÚne. He investigates both the technical qualities of film "flesh" and its theological features. The chapters show how art cinema uses sound, editing, lighting, and close-ups in ways that critique doctrine's authoritarianism, as well as philosophy's individualism, to suggest postmodern theologies that emphasize community. Through this book we learn how the cinematic style of modernist auteurs relates to postmodern theology and how the industry of art cinema constructs certain kinds of film-watching subjectivity.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9783319585550
eBook ISBN
9783319585567
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Chapter 1 Introduction: The Word was Made Film
  5. Chapter 2 “All Is Grace”: Sound and Grace in Robert Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest
  6. Chapter 3 “Life. Yes. Life.”: Editing and Miracles in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Ordet
  7. Chapter 4 “The Whole Earth Is Full of His Glory”: Lighting and Suffering in Ingmar Bergman’s Winter Light
  8. Chapter 5 “No One Must Know of This”: Close-up and Heresy in Luis Buñuel’s The Milky Way
  9. Chapter 6 Conclusion: 
 And Dwelt Among Us
  10. Index