RT Book
T1 Religion and film: cinema and the re-creation of the world
A1 Plate, S. Brent 1966-
LA English
PP New York
PB Columbia University Press
YR 2017
ED Second edition
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1694894517
AB "Religion and Film introduces readers to both religious studies and film studies by focusing on the formal similarities between cinema and religious practices and on the ways they each re-create the world. Explorations of film show how the cinematic experience relies on similar aesthetic devices on which religious rituals have long relied: sight, sound, the taste of food, the body, and communal experience. Meanwhile, a deeper understanding of the aesthetic nature of religious rituals can alter our understanding of film production. Utilizing terminology and theoretical insights from the study of religion as well as the study of film, Religion and Film shows that by paying attention to the ways films are constructed, we can shed new light on the ways religious myths and rituals are constructed and vice versa."--Provided by publisher
AB Introduction: Worldmaking on-screen and at the altar -- Part I. Before the show: pulling the curtain on the wizard. Audio-visual mythologizing -- Ritualizing film in space and time -- Sacred and cinematic spaces: cities and pilgrimages -- Part II. During the show: attractions and distractions. Religious cinematics: body, screen, and death -- The face, the close-up, and ethics -- Part III. After the show: re-created realities. The footprints of film: cinematic after-images in sacred time and space.
CN PN1995.5
SN 0231545797
SN 9780231545792
K1 Religion and literature
K1 Religious films : History and criticism
K1 Religion in motion pictures
K1 Motion Pictures : Religious aspects
K1 PERFORMING ARTS ; Reference
K1 Motion pictures ; Religious aspects
K1 Religious films
K1 Criticism, interpretation, etc