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"For more than half a century now, scholars have debated over what comprises a 'genuinely' religious film one that evinces an 'authentic' manifestation of the sacred. Often these scholars do so by pitting the 'successful' films against those which propagate an inauthentic spiritual experience with the biblical spectacular serving as their most notorious candidate. This book argues that what makes a filmic manifestation of the sacred true or authentic may say more about a spectator or critic's particular way of knowing, as influenced by alphabetic literacy, than it does about the aesthetic or philosophical and sometimes even faith-based dimensions of the sacred onscreen. Engaging with everything from Hollywood religious spectaculars, Hindu mythologicals, and an international array of films revered for their 'transcendental style,' The Sacred and the Cinema unveils the epistemic pressures at the heart of engaging with the sacred onscreen. The book also provides a valuable summation of the history of the sacred as a field of study, particularly as that field intersects with film."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Motion pictures --- Religion in motion pictures. --- Religious films --- Religion and motion pictures --- Religious aspects.
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Biblical scholars and students are finding the role of the Bible in film an increasingly absorbing and rewarding topic. There are films that retell biblical narratives and there are films that allude to the Bible or otherwise build on or appropriate biblical themes and images. The eleven lively and provocative articles in this volume explore both types of film, showcasing the cinema's impact on the perception of the Bible in modern culture. Originally published as issue 1-2 of Volume 14 (2006) of Brill's journal Biblical Interpretation. For more details on this journal, please click here.
Bible films --- Biblical films --- Religious films --- History and criticism. --- Bible --- In motion pictures. --- In motion pictures --- Bible films - History and criticism.
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From struggles over identity politics in the 1990s to current concerns about a clash of civilizations between Islam and Christianity, culture wars play a prominent role in the twenty-first century. Movies help to define and drive these conflicts by both reflecting and shaping cultural norms, as well as showing what violates those norms. In this pathfinding book, Daniel S. Cutrara employs queer theory, cultural studies, theological studies, and film studies to investigate how cinema represents and often denigrates religion and religious believers—an issue that has received little attention in film studies, despite the fact that faith in its varied manifestations is at the heart of so many cultural conflicts today. Wicked Cinema examines films from the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, including Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Circle, Breaking the Waves, Closed Doors, Agnes of God, Priest, The Last Temptation of Christ, and Dogma. Central to all of the films is their protagonists’ struggles with sexual transgression and traditional belief systems within Christianity, Judaism, or Islam—a struggle, Cutrara argues, that positions believers as the Other and magnifies the abuses of religion while ignoring its positive aspects. Uncovering a hazardous web of ideological assumptions informed by patriarchy, the spirit/flesh dichotomy, and heteronormativity, Cutrara demonstrates that ultimately these films emphasize the “Otherness” of the faithful through a variety of strategies commonly used to denigrate the queer, from erasing their existence, to using feminization to make them appear weak, to presenting them as dangerous fanatics.
Sex in motion pictures. --- Religion in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Religious films --- Sex in moving-pictures --- Erotic films --- Pornographic films
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After the epochal turn of 1989 a new wave of movies dealing with the complex entanglement of religious and national identity has emerged in the eastern part of Europe. There has been plenty of evidence for a return of nationalism, while the predicated 'return of religion(s)' is envisaged on a larger scale as a global phenomenon. The book suggests that in the wake of the historical turns of 1989, an 'iconic turn' has taken place in Eastern Europe – in the form of a renewed cinematic commitment to make sense of the world in religious and/or national terms. 'Iconic Turns' combines theoretical articles on the subject with case studies, bringing together researchers from different national backgrounds and disciplines, such as history, literary and film studies. Contributors include: Eva Binder, Jan Čulík, Liliya Berezhnaya, Christian Schmitt, Hans-Joachim Schlegel, Maren Röger, Mirosław Przylipiak, Stephen Norris, John-Paul Himka, Maria Falina, and Natascha Drubek.
Motion pictures --- Religion in motion pictures. --- National characteristics in motion pictures. --- ART / Film & Video --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Reference --- Religious films --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism
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Benini illuminates the radical politics embedded within Pasolini's adoption of Christian themes.
Religion in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Religious films --- Pasolini, Pier Paolo, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Religion in motion pictures --- film --- filmgeschiedenis --- filmtheorie --- filmanalyse --- filmregisseurs --- Italië --- twintigste eeuw --- Pasolini Pier Paolo --- 791.471 PASOLINI --- Religion au cinéma --- Pasolini, Pier Paolo
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In 1977, Star Wars blazed across the screen to become one of the highest grossing and most beloved movies of all time. In Sex, Politics, and Religion in Star Wars: An Anthology, Douglas Brode and Leah Deyneka have assembled a provocative collection of essays that explore such hot topics as race and racism in the Star Wars galaxy, Judeo-Christian and Eastern re
Star Wars films --- Sex in motion pictures. --- Politics in motion pictures. --- Religion in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Religious films --- Sex in moving-pictures --- Erotic films --- Pornographic films --- History and criticism.
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Christian filmmaking, done outside of the corporate Hollywood industry and produced for Christian churches, affected a significant audience of church people. Protestant denominations and individuals believed that they could preach and teach more effectively through the mass medium of film. Although suspicion toward the film industry marked many conservatives during the early 1930s, many Christian leaders came to believe in the power of technology to convert or to morally instruct people. Thus the growth of a Christian film industry was an extension of the Protestant tradition of preaching, with the films becoming celluloid sermons. Celluloid Sermons is the first historical study of this phenomenon. Terry Lindvall and Andrew Quicke highlight key characters, studios, and influential films of the movement from 1930 to 1986—such as the Billy Graham Association, with its major WorldWide Pictures productions of films like The Hiding Place, Ken Curtis’ Gateway Films, the apocalyptic “end-time” films by Mark IV (e.g. Thief in the Night), and the instructional video-films of Dobson’s Focus on the Family--assessing the extent to which the church’s commitment to filmmaking accelerated its missions and demonstrating that its filmic endeavors had the unintended consequence of contributing to the secularization of liberal denominations.
C4 --- film --- christendom --- Media en communicatie --- Sociology of religion --- Film --- anno 1900-1999 --- Christianity in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures in Christian education. --- Motion pictures --- Motion picture industry --- Christian films --- Christian education --- Religious films --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- History --- History and criticism.
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This two-part volume contains a comprehensive collection of original studies by well-known scholars focusing on the Bible’s wide-ranging reception in world cinema. It is organized into sections examining the rich cinematic afterlives of selected characters from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament; considering issues of biblical reception across a wide array of film genres, ranging from noir to anime; featuring directors, from Lee Chang-dong to the Coen brothers, whose body of work reveals an enduring fascination with biblical texts and motifs; and offering topical essays on cinema’s treatment of selected biblical themes (e.g., lament, apocalyptic), particular interpretive lenses (e.g., feminist interpretation, queer theory), and windows into biblical reception in a variety of world cinemas (e.g., Indian, Israeli, and Third Cinema). This handbook is intended for scholars of the Bible, religion, and film as well as for a wider general audience.
Bible films --- Motion pictures --- Films bibliques --- Cinéma --- History and criticism --- Religious aspects. --- Histoire et critique --- Aspect religieux --- History and criticism. --- Bible --- In motion pictures --- Cinéma --- Religion and motion pictures --- Biblical films --- Religious films --- Bible films - History and criticism. --- Biblical Studies. --- Cinema. --- Reception History. --- Religion in Culture.
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"Between the advent of motion pictures in the 1890s and the close of the 'silent' era at the end of the 1920s, many of the longest, most expensive and most watched films on both sides of the Atlantic drew upon biblical traditions. David J. Shepherd traces the evolution of the biblical film through the silent era, asking why the Bible attracted early film makers, how biblical films were indebted to other interpretive traditions, and how these films were received. Drawing upon rarely seen archival footage and early landmark films of directors such as Louis Feuillade, D.W. Griffith, Michael Curtis and Cecil B. DeMille, this history treats well-known biblical subjects including Joseph, Moses, David and Jesus, along with lesser-known biblical stars such as Jael, Judith and Jephthah's daughter. This book will be of great interest to students of Biblical studies, Jewish studies and film studies"--
Films bibliques --- Films muets --- Bible films --- Silent films --- Histoire et critique. --- Aspect religieux. --- History and criticism. --- Religious aspects. --- Bible --- In motion pictures. --- RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament. --- Moving pictures, Silent --- Silent motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Biblical films --- Religious films --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion
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