Imaging Religion in Film
eBook - PDF

Imaging Religion in Film

The Politics of Nostalgia

  1. 204 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Imaging Religion in Film

The Politics of Nostalgia

About this book

This book offers a new methodology for examining the ethico-political dimensions of religion and film which foregrounds film's social power both to shape subjectivity and to image contemporary social contradictions and analyses three specific films: Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala ; Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry ; and the Coens' The Man Who Wasn't There .

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Information

Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780230339866
eBook ISBN
9781137013248

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Images
  8. Preface: Film at the Intersection of Religion and Power
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction: Interpreting Religion and Film
  11. Part I Film Study
  12. Part II Theoretical Reflections
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index

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