Exploring Film and Christianity

Movement as Immobility
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-15956-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 552 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Religion and Film

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Benis, Rita

Dias Branco, Sérgio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Exploring Film and Christianity

Rita Benis and Sérgio Dias Branco

PART I: Theory
1. 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.