Exploring Film and Christianity

Movement as Immobility
Herausgegeben:Benis, Rita; Dias Branco, Sérgio

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the connections between film and Christianity, considering how films express and depict Christian faith and spirituality and provide experiences associated with it. The notion of movement as immobility (from Simone Weil) is employed to describe film and its images in motion. Its movements can reconnect us with the movements of the world, those motions in which a mysterious sense of order, what Weil calls "immobility," arises. Film is understood as a privileged form to access inscrutable spiritual (in)visibilities that can be linked with Christian concepts and practices. The chapters in Exploring Film and Christianity offer new studies of famous directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky and Robert Bresson combined with analyses of recent notable films, including Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups, Martin Scorsese's Silence, and Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049. Organized around the productive topics of theory, expression, depiction and experience, this volume is a valuable contribution to interdisciplinary research on film and Christianity.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Religion and Film
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781032159560
• ISBN-10: 1032159561
• Artikelnr.: 70600671

Autorenporträt

Rita Benis is a Researcher at the Center for Comparative Studies at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Sérgio Dias Branco is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Exploring Film and Christianity
Rita Benis and Sérgio Dias Branco
PART I: Theory1. The European Tradition?: Film and Christianity Beyond the
Canon
Catherine Wheatley
2. "My Sister Reality": The Franciscan Sources of Bazin's Philosophy of
Cinema
John Caruana
3. Toward a Christian Aesthetic of Cinema Flow
Joseph G. Kickasola
PART II: Expression
4. Cinema Places Us Waiting for What?: A Religious Look at the Cinema of
João Salaviza
José Tolentino Mendonça
5. Filming the Soul? From Robert Bresson to Manoel de Oliveira
Maria Do Rosário Lupi Bello
6. On Christian Values and Bresson's Forms: A Contribution to a
Philosophical Legacy of Cinema
Maria Irene Aparício
PART III: Depiction
7. Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia: Between Art, Biography and Christianity
Mário Avelar
8. The Striving Promiser: On the Immobile Movement of Promise in The Given
Word (1962)
José Manuel Martins
9. Herzog's Kasper Hauser, or The Enigma of the Hidden God
Paolo Stellino
10. Remembrance of Acto da Primavera in Manoel de Oliveira's Filmography
Adriana Martins
11. Theft and Return or Bresson's Grace
Gerard Loughlin
12. To Be Is to Be Free: Cybernetic Life as Christian Subjectivity in
Blade Runner 2049
M. Gail Hamner
PART IV: Experience
13. Of Balloons, Bells and Icons: Andrei Rublev from Above
Bruno C. Duarte
14. Silence Is Golden, or How the West Meets Japan in the Theory of
Spiritual Film Aesthetics
Dan Chyutin
15. Terrence Malick, or the Portrayal of Marriage as a Sacrament
Pablo Alzola
16. Movement as the Core of Being: Watching Terrence Malick's Knight of
Cups Through David Bentley Hart's Theology
Denys Kondyuk